Documentary Genealogies. Photography 1848–1917
This book completes the trilogy on the history of the documentary idea in photography, started with "The Worker Photography Movement, 1926-1939. Essays and documents" (2011) and "Not Yet. On the Reinvention of Documentary and Critique of Modernism. Essays and Documents, 1972-1991" (2015), also previously published by Museum Reina Sofia.
MoMA Goes to Paris in 1938
Caroline Riley's new book MoMA Goes to Paris in 1938 (UC Press, 2023) explores MoMA’s first international exhibition, Three Centuries of American Art, and discusses Beaumont Newhall's transcultural history of American photography, which included sixty-one daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, stereoviews, gelatin silver prints, and unlabeled processes.
The Absolute Realist: Collected Writings of Albert Renger-Patzsch, 1923–1967
This annotated anthology makes the entirety of the German photographer Albert Renger-Patzsch’s essential writings available to an English-language audience for the first time.
The Natural World
Jason Allen-Paisant, John Edmonds, David Hartt, and Nathaniel M. Stein
A commissioned collaboration between visual artists John Edmonds and David Hartt, poet and scholar Jason Allen-Paisant, and curator Nathaniel M. Stein, Natural World presents four related proposals for including silenced positions in a shared conversation about the nature of the world.
Power and Perspective: Early Photography in China
A critical reconsideration of the history of photography that explores how commerce and conflict fueled its practice in nineteenth-century China.
Mapping Methods and Materials: Photographic Heritage in Cultural and Art-historical Research. Volume 9 (XXIX) of the Proceedings of the National Library of Latvia
Co-edited by PN member Alise Tifentale, “Mapping Methods and Materials: Photographic Heritage in Cultural and Art-historical Research,” the Volume 9 (XXIX) of the Proceedings of the National Library of Latvia, features new research articles by PN members Maria Garth, Leila Anne Harris, and Alise Tifentale.
Picturing Freedom: African Americans & Their Cars, A Photographic History
Stanley B. Burns, MD & Elizabeth A. Burns
Picturing Freedom, through over 450 photographs, chronicles and celebrates the photographic history of African Americans and their cars by focusing on personal images of the pride and joy of car ownership. It is an inspiring visual narrative of American life.
Behind the Camera Japan |カメラの後ろで Gender, Power, and Politics in the History of Japanese Photography
An open-source website creating new critical directions on the histories of photography, feminist art history, and modern Japan.
Marcia Resnick: As It Is or Could Be
Frank H. Goodyear III (Author), Lisa Hostetler (Author), Casey Riley (Author), Laurie Anderson (Afterword)
Photographer Marcia Resnick (b. 1950) earned recognition as part of the legendary Downtown New York art scene of the 1970s and 1980s. Her portraits of the era’s major cultural figures, such as Jean-Michel Basquiat, John Belushi, and Susan Sontag, have contributed to the scene’s mythic status.
Wolfgang Tillmans: A Reader
Edited by Roxana Marcoci and Phil Taylor
This volume offers a panoramic collection of interviews and writings from an artist for whom language has always been a significant means of creative expression.
Muybridge and Mobility
Author: Tim Creswell and John Ott, with an introduction by Anthony W. Lee
A cultural geographer and an art historian offer fresh interpretations of Muybridge’s famous motion studies through the lenses of mobility and race.
Nudism in a Cold Climate: The Visual Culture of Naturists in Mid-20th Century Britain
Author: Annebella Pollen
Annebella Pollen’s richly illustrated study examines the idiosyncratic phenomenon of social nudism, or naturism, in 20th-century Britain, a place known for its lack of sunshine and conservative attitudes to sex.
David LEVINTHAL: “HEROES, SLUTS & SERVANTS”
Robert Hirsch, Véronique Côté, Lisa Parrish
Exhibition catalog with essays covering series Hitler Moves East, Blackface, Hell’s Belles, XXX, Barbie, and Mein Kampf, and more.
Art + Archive: Understanding the archival turn in contemporary art
Author: Sara Callahan
Art + Archive provides an in-depth analysis of the connection between art and the archive at the turn of the twenty-first century. The book examines how the archive emerged in art writing in the mid-1990s and how its subsequent ubiquity can be understood in light of wider social, technological, philosophical and art-historical conditions and concerns.
Italian Neorealist Photography
Antonella Russo provides an incisive examination of Neorealist photography, delineates its periodization, traces its instances and its progressive popularization and subsequent co-optation that occurred with the advent of the industrialization of photographic magazines.
The Night Albums: Visibility and the Ephemeral Photograph
Author: Kate Palmer Albers
We live in an era of abundant photography. Is it then counterintuitive to study photographs that disappear or are difficult to discern? Kate Palmer Albers argues that it is precisely this current cultural moment that allows us to recognize what has always been a basic and foundational, yet unseen, condition of photography: its ephemerality.
Photography in the Great War: The Ethics of Emerging Medical Collections from the Great War
Author: Jason Bate
This book draws on a rich set of materials to examine postwar experiences of ex-servicemen who were facially-disfigured during the First World War. Weaving together medical, institutional, amateur and family photographic albums under a social history framework, Jason Bate underscores overlooked aspects of these men's continued hardships after returning home from the front. In particular, a focus is on the private sphere of the family and the complicated world of employment that disfigured veterans navigated on their return.
Ubiquity: Photography's Multitudes
Edited by Jacob W. Lewis and Kyle Parry
This anthology of essays posits how the question of when photography came to be everywhere shapes our understanding of all manner of photographic media. Available open access through Leuven University Press.
As We Rise: Photography from the Black Atlantic, Selections from the Wedge Collection
By The Wedge Collection
As We Rise presents an exciting compilation of photographs from African diasporic culture. With over one hundred works by Black artists from Canada, the Caribbean, Great Britain, the United States, South America, as well as throughout the African continent, this volume provides a timely exploration of Black identity on both sides of the Atlantic.
The Railroad and the Art of Place: An Anthology
Author: David Kahler, creator, Jeff Brouws, Alexander Benjamin Craghead, and Kevin P. Keefe, eds.
In The Railroad and the Art of Place: An Anthology, a team of thirty contemporary and historical photographers—whose work is displayed across eighteen portfolios—visually contemplate the visible and philosophical imprint of the railroad on the American landscape.