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NEW IN PRINT — Visualizing Equality: African American Rights and Visual Culture in the 19th Century
Aston Gonzalez. Material Culture — History and Culture. “The fight for racial equality in the nineteenth century played out not only in...
Jan 4, 2021


NEW IN PRINT — Design and Political Dissent: Spaces, Visuals, Materialities
Jilly Traganou (Editor). Material Culture — History and Culture. “This book examines, through an interdisciplinary lens, the relationship...
Jan 4, 2021


NEW IN PRINT — Picturing Indians: Native Americans in Film, 1941-1960
Liza Black. Film — Critique. “Liza Black offers a rare and overlooked perspective on American cinema history by giving voice to creators...
Jan 4, 2021


BOOK REVIEWS — More than One Picture: An Art History of the Hyperimage
Felix Thürlemann. Getty Research Institute, 2019. I was excited to read More Than One Picture: An Art History of the Hyperimage by Swiss...
Jun 9, 2020


IN DEPTH — The Story Behind the Photo
A group of men and women pose with yo-yos on the steps of City Hall in Raleigh, NC around 1930. Among them? Pedro Flores, the Filipino...
Jun 9, 2020


IN DEPTH — Where Was That Taken?: Using Google to Geolocate Photographs
While photographs are not our main medium at The Center for American War Letters Archives, we do receive tons, mostly from the First and...
Jun 9, 2020


IN FOCUS — 2020 Italian Street Photo Festival
Exhibitions — Photography. You (didn’t) have to be there. Street photography enthusiasts, rejoice! Closed for the pandemic, the 2020...
Jun 9, 2020


IN FOCUS — CollectSocialPhoto
Get Social — Twitter. @photocollecting Follow CollectSocialPhoto, a Nordic collaborative project developing methods for collecting social...
Jun 9, 2020


IN FOCUS — NARA's Citizen Archivist crowdsourcing project
Get Involved — Lend a Hand. Looking for useful ways to pass time during your next Zoom meeting? Spend a few moments tagging historic...
Jun 9, 2020


IN FOCUS — Join the Isolation Museum
Get Involved — Group Efforts. View crowdsourced images documenting scenes of self-isolation during the Covid-19 pandemic or submit your...
Jun 9, 2020
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