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.
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.
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.
Photography and Modern Public Housing in Los Angeles
Author: Nicole Krup Oest
In the 1940s, Los Angeles faced an acute housing crisis. The local housing authority responded with a controversial program of slum clearance and public housing construction as well as photography that presented the crisis in innovative ways.
Russell Lee: A Photographer’s Life and Legacy
Author: Mary Jane Appel
Russell Lee, a contemporary of Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange, now emerges from the shadows as one of the most influential documentary photographers in American history.
Words on Pictures: Romana Javitz and the New York Public Library’s Picture Collection.
Edited by Anthony T. Troncale with a forward by Jessica Cline.
In the pre-digital era, the age of mechanical reproduction, the New York Public Library’s Picture Collection provided the free circulation of prints, photographs, postcards and other clippings to its constituency of local and international artists, illustrators, advertisers, and businessmen.
Parental Grief and Photographic Remembrance: A Historic Account of Undying Love
Author: Felicity T. C. Hamer
Photographic portraits of those who have passed have the potential to become valuable sites of remembrance. Across North America and Western Europe, parents are increasingly unfamiliar with death; lacking the rituals and tools that have historically eased the bereavement process.