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Erik Gellman, “Troublemakers: Chicago Freedom Struggles Through the Lens of Art Shay” (Chicago UP, 2020)

Erik Gellman
Troublemakers
Chicago Freedom Struggles Through the Lens of Art Shay
University of Chicago Press, 2020

New Books in African American Studies New Books in American Studies New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Photography New Books in Politics & Society August 13, 2020 E. 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 Lens of Art Shay (University of Chicago Press, 2020). Fusing photography and history to demonstrate how racial and economic inequality gave rise to... Read More

Christopher Bonanos, “Flash: The Making of Weegee the Famous” (Henry Holt, 2018)

Christopher Bonanos
Flash
The Making of Weegee the Famous
Henry Holt & Company, 2018

New Books in American Studies New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Biography New Books in History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Photography New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Popular Culture New Books Network July 10, 2020 Robert W. 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 tabloid newspapers to seminars on the history of photography. Christopher Bonanos’ book Flash: The Making of Weegee the Famous (Henry... Read More

Anne Godfrey
Active Landscape Photography
Theoretical Groundwork for Landscape Architecture
Routledge, 2020

Landscape Architecture New Books in Architecture New Books in Art New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Photography New Books Network June 5, 2020 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 the complex relationship between landscape architecture and photography. It explores the influence of photographic seeing on the design process by... Read More

Jacki Apple
Performance / Media / Art / Culture
Selected Essays 1983-2018
Intellect Books, 2019

New Books in American Studies New Books in Art New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Music New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Performing Arts New Books in Photography New Books Network April 23, 2020 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 important developments in performance art both in the Los Angeles and New York scenes, discuss artists including Laurie Anderson, Spalding... Read More

Margaret Hillenbrand, “Negative Exposures: Knowing What Not to Know in Contemporary China” (Duke UP, 2020)

Margaret Hillenbrand
Negative Exposures
Knowing What Not to Know in Contemporary China
Duke University Press, 2020

New Books in Art New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in East Asian Studies New Books in History New Books in Literary Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Photography New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network April 2, 2020 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 in such a vast society is not especially well understood. A lot more must be at play than simply the... Read More

Alex Lichtenstein, “Margaret Bourke-White and the Dawn of Apartheid” (Indiana UP, 2016)

Alex Lichtenstein and Rick Halpern
Margaret Bourke-White and the Dawn of Apartheid

Indiana University Press, 2016

New Books in African Studies New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Biography New Books in History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Photography New Books in Politics & Society New Books in the American South December 27, 2019 Beth A. 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 writing transnational histories of labor and social justice movements. As a photographer for Life and Fortune magazines, Margaret Bourke-White traveled... Read More

Chris Arnade
Dignity
Seeking Respect in Back Row America
Sentinel, 2019

New Books in American Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Photography New Books in Politics New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Public Policy New Books in Sociology New Books Network December 11, 2019 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 journalist and photographer, Chris Arnade, about the forgotten towns and people of back row America. In 2011, Chris left a... Read More

Catherine Clark, “Paris and the Cliché of History: The City in Photographs, 1860-1970” (Oxford UP, 2018)

Catherine Clark
Paris and the Cliché of History
The City in Photographs, 1860-1970
Oxford University Press, 2018

New Books in Art New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in European Studies New Books in French Studies New Books in History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Photography New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network October 18, 2019 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 book, Paris and the Cliché of History: The City in Photographs, 1860-1970 (Oxford UP, 2018), Catherine Clark explores the history... Read More

Gabriel Jones, “Splashes” (RVB Press, 2018)

Gabriel Jones
Splashes

RVB, 2018

New Books in Art New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Photography New Books Network September 19, 2019 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 element to this series in that Gabriel invited friends to pretend to pose at a party, he focused his camera... Read More

Kent Gramm, “Gettysburg: The Living and the Dead” (Southern Illinois UP, 2019)

Kent Gramm
Gettysburg
The Living and the Dead
Southern Illinois University Press, 2019

New Books in American Studies New Books in History New Books in Military History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Photography New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network August 16, 2019 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 stunning photographs by Chris Heisey, Gramm shares the experiences of the people at Gettysburg—both those historical figures who took part... Read More