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Photography
Interviews with photographers and scholars of photography about their new books.
March 27, 2026
Veins of Influence
Veins of Influence: Colonial Sri Lanka (Ceylon) in Early Photographs and Collections by Shalini Amerasinghe Ganendra (Neptune Publications, 2023) is a…
March 17, 2026
Inhabiting Technologies/Modernities
Studies of forms of media have focused on either political or cultural histories of media. Political histories study media growth and literacy, and th…
March 10, 2026
Forging a Mexican People
Forging a Mexican People: Collective Subjectivities in Postrevolutionary Print Culture, 1917–1968 (University of Arizona Press, 2026) shows how illust…
February 22, 2026
British Blonde
In the 1950s, American glamour swept into a war-torn Britain as part of a broader transatlantic exchange of culture and commodities. But in this proce…
February 12, 2026
Photographing Biblical Modernity
This open access book offers the first in-depth appraisal of the photographic archive of Frank Scholten (1881–1942), a queer Dutch photographer and Ca…
January 22, 2026
A Dirty History of Photography
In A Dirty History of Photography: Chemistry, Fog, and Empire (U Chicago Press, 2026), Professor Michelle Henning presents an environmental history of…
December 30, 2025
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…
December 16, 2025
Carnalities
How can habits of racialization be affected by art, in its reception and its creation? How can a carnal aesthetics help us understand Latinx life? Wha…
November 9, 2025
Portraits in the Andes
In Portraits in the Andes: Photography and Agency, 1900-1950 (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018), Jorge Coronado, Professor of Spanish and Portugue…
October 29, 2025
The Road
The Road (Akashic Books, 2025) is an illuminating selection of photographs spanning iconic punk rock guitarist Brian Baker’s many years of global tour…
October 15, 2025
In Visible Presence
In Visible Presence: Soviet Afterlives in Family Photos (MIT Press, 2023) is an absorbing exploration of Soviet-era family photographs that demonstrat…
October 6, 2025
Digital Expressions of the Self(ie)
Selfies are more than fleeting images—across India, they shape how people imagine themselves, connect with others, and inhabit spaces. In this episo…
September 25, 2025
Troubling Archives
Namibia’s colonial history casts a long shadow over the country’s present. Contemporary authors and artists confront the legacies of German and South …
September 18, 2025
Still Lives
Still Lives: Jewish Photography in Nazi Germany (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025) is a systematic study of the ways Jews used photographs to document their…
September 11, 2025
Ham’s Heaven
Listen to Ori Gersht speak about his novel Ham’s Heaven (Warbler Press, 2025). Inspired by the true story of the first great ape in space, it explores…
September 6, 2025
Rethinking Jewish History and Memory Through Photography
Ofer Ashkenazi is a Professor of History and the director of the Richard Koebner-Minerva Center for German History at the Hebrew University of Jerusal…
September 2, 2025
Tales of Militant Chemistry
In Tales of Militant Chemistry (U California Press, 2025), Alice Lovejoy tells the untold story of film as a chemical cousin to poison gas and nuclear…
August 1, 2025
Provoking Religion
In the late twentieth century, artists were on the front lines of the culture wars. Leaders of the Christian Right in the U.S. made a national spectac…
July 26, 2025
The Decisive Network
The legendary Magnum photo agency has long been associated with heroic lone wolf male photographers such as Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson, roa…
July 3, 2025
Bridging History, Policy and Place
Bruce Harvey is a historian and photographer based in Syracuse, NY, who works at the intersection of memory, place, and public history. As an independ…