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Photography
Interviews with photographers and scholars of photography about their new books.
November 20, 2024
Walking East Harlem
They call it Spanish Harlem or sometimes just El Barrio. But for over a century, East Harlem has been a melting pot of many ethnic groups, including P…
October 9, 2024
Framing Nature
Perhaps no American landscape is as iconic as the rainbow rocks of Arizona's Grand Canyon. Yet, as the geographer Yolonda Youngs argues, the Grand Can…
October 2, 2024
The Cities We Need
An expressive book of prose and photographs that reveals the powerful ways our everyday places support our shared belonging. Where would you take some…
September 21, 2024
The Unseen Truth
In a masterpiece of historical detective work, Sarah Lewis exposes one of the most damaging lies in American history. There was a time when Americans …
August 21, 2024
Global Queens
Joseph Heathcott discusses his latest book, Global Queens: An Urban Mosaic (Fordham University Press, 2023), an engaging hybrid of text and visual tha…
August 16, 2024
Queer Obscenity
Queer Obscenity: Erotic Archives in Dictatorial Spain (Stanford University Press, 2024) takes us inside the archive to demonstrate how the incongruiti…
August 9, 2024
Faithful Unto Death
Losing a pet has always been a unique kind of pain. No set rituals exist to help provide closure when pets die, there are no readily shared passages f…
June 28, 2024
The Loneliness Room
The Loneliness Room: A Creative Ethnography of Loneliness (Manchester University Press, 2024) by Dr. Sean Remond is a remarkably unique book takes the…
June 21, 2024
Camera Geologica
In Camera Geologica: An Elemental History of Photography (Duke UP, 2024) Siobhan Angus tells the history of photography through the minerals upon whic…
May 17, 2024
Image as Form in a Transpositional Grammar
Listen to Episode No.10 of All We Mean, a Special Focus of this podcast. All We Mean is an ongoing discussion and debate about how we mean and why. Th…
April 18, 2024
The Study of Photography in Latin America
The Study of Photography in Latin America: Critical Insights and Methodological Approaches (University of New Mexico Press, 2023) provides an insider'…
February 25, 2024
Kibbitz and Nosh
In the middle decades of the twentieth century in New York City, Dubrow’s cafeterias in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn and the garment district of M…
February 24, 2024
Exposing Slavery
Shortly after its introduction, photography transformed the ways Americans made political arguments using visual images. In the mid-19th century, phot…
December 16, 2023
Restless Archive
The global refugee, the ship passenger, the displaced person. How did their homeseeking routes and visual motifs intersect and diverge in the earl…
December 4, 2023
The Unintended
The end of the nineteenth century saw massive developments and innovations in photography at a time when the forces of Western modernity—industrializa…
December 1, 2023
Hidden in Plain Sight
In the decades leading up to the Civil War, abolitionists crafted a variety of visual messages about the plight of enslaved people, portraying the vio…
November 25, 2023
Voidopolis
Shortlisted for the 2023 Lumen Prize, Kat Mustatea's Voidopolis (MIT Press, 2023) is a hybrid digital artistic and literary project in the form of an …
October 30, 2023
Law, Visual Culture, and the Show Trial
Addressing the relationship between law and the visual, this book examines the importance of photography in Central, East, and Southeast European show…
October 25, 2023
Picture-Work
How the image collection, organized and made available for public consumption, came to define a key feature of contemporary visual culture. The origin…
October 6, 2023
Visibility
In this episode of High Theory, Margaret Galvan talks about the queer politics of Visibility. In her work the activist practices of representation tak…