New Books Network
Photography
Van Leer Institute Series on Ideas with Renee Garfinkel March 1, 2021

Heirlooms

Memory and Cherished Objects

J. Jay Garfinkel

Hosted by Renee Garfinkel
Everyone will lose someone they love at some point in their life; a spouse, a parent, or a child. Having to deal with the clothes or personal effects that remain …

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Performing Arts February 25, 2021

Maybe the People Would Be the Times

Luc Sante

Hosted by Andy Boyd
Maybe the People Would Be the Times (Verse Chorus Press, 2020) could be described as a memoir in essay form. Collecting pieces from the past two decades, this book covers Luc Sante's …
Popular Culture February 23, 2021

Can't Nobody Do Me Like Jesus!

Photographs from the Sacred Steel Community

Robert L. Stone

Hosted by Rebekah Buchanan
Folklorist Robert L. Stone presents a rare collection of high-quality documentary photos of the sacred steel guitar musical tradition and the community that supports it. The introductory text and extended …
Italian Studies February 19, 2021

The Photoromance

A Feminist Reading of Popular Culture

Paola Bonifazio

Hosted by Nicoletta Marini-Maio
Paola Bonifazio’s The Photoromance. A Feminist Reading of Popular Culture (MIT Press, 2020) is the first feminist reading of photoromances that examines both its industry and its fandom, arguing for …
Russian and Eurasian Studies February 15, 2021

Journeys through the Russian Empire

The Photographic Legacy of Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky

William Craft Brumfield

Hosted by Jennifer Eremeeva
In his latest authoritative book, Journeys Through the Russian Empire: The Photographic Legacy of Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky (Duke University Press, 2020) Russian scholar, photographer, and chronicler of Russian architecture William …
Psychology December 30, 2020

In the Shadow of Freud's Couch

Portraits of Psychoanalysts in Their Offices

Mark Gerald

Hosted by Eugenio Duarte
Psychotherapy offices are typically thought of as existing in the background of treatment, but they are brought to the foreground in Mark Gerald’s new book In the Shadow of Freud’s Couch …
Animal Studies December 8, 2020

Thirty Times a Minute

Colleen Plumb

Hosted by Mark Molloy
Captive elephants exhibit what biologists refer to as stereotypy, which includes rhythmic rocking, head bobbing, stepping back and forth, and pacing. Colleen Plumb traveled to over seventy zoos in the …
Photography September 30, 2020

La Batea

Elizabeth Ferry and Stephen Ferry

Hosted by Alex Golub
La Batea is an unconventional book. A collaboration between anthropologist Elizabeth Ferry and her photographer brother Stephen, it combines text and images to paint a picture of the lives of …
Photography August 13, 2020

Troublemakers

Chicago Freedom Struggles Through the Lens of Art Shay

Erik Gellman

Hosted by James West
James West speaks with Erik Gellman, an associate professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, about his new book Troublemakers: Chicago Freedom Struggles Through the …
Photography July 10, 2020

Flash

The Making of Weegee the Famous

Christopher Bonanos

Hosted by Robert Snyder
In the middle of the twentieth century, a newspaper photographer who went by the name of Weegee took memorable pictures of New York City’s street life that appeared everywhere from …
Architecture June 5, 2020

Active Landscape Photography

Theoretical Groundwork for Landscape Architecture

Anne Godfrey

Hosted by Tricia Keffer
Photographs play a hugely influential but largely unexamined role in the practice of landscape architecture and design. Through a diverse set of essays and case studies, this seminal text unpacks …
Art April 23, 2020

Performance / Media / Art / Culture

Selected Essays 1983-2018

Jacki Apple

Hosted by Andy Boyd
Performance / Media / Art / Culture: Selected Essays 1983-2018 (Intellect Books, 2019) collects more than thirty years of critical writing by artist and writer Jacki Apple. These essays trace …
Art April 2, 2020

Negative Exposures

Knowing What Not to Know in Contemporary China

Margaret Hillenbrand

Hosted by Ed Pulford
The fact that secrecy and the concealment of information is important in today’s China is hardly a secret in itself, yet the ways that this secrecy is structured and sustained …
Photography December 27, 2019

Margaret Bourke-White and the Dawn of Apartheid

Alex Lichtenstein and Rick Halpern

Hosted by Beth English
Alex Lichtenstein, Associate Professor of History at Indiana University, discusses his new book with co-author Rick Halpern, Margaret Bourke-White and the Dawn of Apartheid (Indiana University Press, 2016) photojournalism, and …
Photography December 11, 2019

Dignity

Seeking Respect in Back Row America

Chris Arnade

Hosted by Richard Davies and Jim Meigs
A lot of politicians like to say that there are “two Americas,” but do any of them know what life is really like for the marginalized poor? We speak with …
Art October 18, 2019

Paris and the Cliché of History

The City in Photographs, 1860-1970

Catherine Clark

Hosted by Roxanne Panchasi
What’s the first image that comes to mind when you hear the words “Paris” and “photography”? Is it a famous photo, perhaps an Atget, Brassai, or Doisneau? In her new …
Art September 19, 2019

Splashes

Gabriel Jones

Hosted by Lorena Turner
The images featured in Splashes (RVB Press, 2018) are characteristic of Gabriel Jones’ approach to making images by capturing the “backdrop”, things behind the original subject. There is a performative …
Photography August 16, 2019

Gettysburg

The Living and the Dead

Kent Gramm

Hosted by Colin Mustful
Using a mixture of genres, Kent Gramm captures the voices of those past and present in his book, Gettysburg: The Living and the Dead (Southern Illinois University Press, 2019) Alongside …
Art June 25, 2019

Consuming Identities

Visual Culture in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco

Amy Lippert

Hosted by Ryan Tripp
Along with the rapid expansion of the market economy and industrial production methods, such innovations as photography, lithography, and steam printing created a pictorial revolution in nineteenth-century society. The proliferation …
Photography April 25, 2019

Exposing Slavery

Photography, Human Bondage, and the Birth of Modern Visual Politics in America

Matthew Fox-Amato

Hosted by Christine Lamberson
Shortly after its introduction, photography transformed the ways Americans made political arguments using visual images. In the mid-19th century, photographs became key tools in debates surrounding slavery. Yet, photographs were …