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Jun 8, 2020
IN FOCUS — Distance Learning
Education — Online Opportunities. Travel plans scrapped? Don’t despair–there are still are plenty of opportunities for distance learning....
Jun 8, 2020
BOOK REVIEWS — Mapping Beyond Measure: Art, Cartography, and the Space of Global Modernity
Simon Ferdinand. University of Nebraska Press, 2019. At a previous job, I oversaw both that university’s map library and the archives and...
Nov 12, 2019
VMS LEADERSHIP — From the Chair (2019)
Greetings, colleagues, from the first blog edition of Views! In these times of decreased staff and budgets, and increased workloads, I...
Nov 12, 2019
VMS LEADERSHIP — Get to Know Our Newest Steering Committee Members (2019)
Hi, I am the incoming Visual Materials Section member-at-large. I am the Senior Processing Archivist at the Harvard University Property...
Nov 12, 2019
IN DEPTH — Polaroids from Heaven: Developing Active Learning with Unconventional Visual Resources
A photograph of the Blessed Virgin Mary appearing on a rose petal, a Polaroid of unexplained religious symbols in the clouds, and an...
Nov 4, 2019
NEW IN PRINT — The Image of Whiteness: Contemporary Photography and Racialization
Daniel C. Blight (Editor). Photography — Analysis. “A unique study of art photography as a means to understand whiteness. In a time of...
Nov 4, 2019
IN FOCUS — Graphic materials selected by the staff of University of Wisconsin-Madison
Get Social — Tumblr. Lose yourself in this continuous delight of graphic materials selected by the staff of University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Nov 4, 2019
NEW IN PRINT — Documentary Photography Reconsidered: History, Theory and Practice
Michelle Bogre. Photography — Perspectives. “Documentary photography is undergoing an unprecedented transformation as it adapts to the...
Nov 4, 2019
IN FOCUS — Inward Outward Symposium
Education — Symposium. Hilversum, Netherlands. January 24-25, 2020. “Archives, assumed to be containers of memory, are vested with a...
Nov 4, 2019
IN FOCUS — Laura Aguilar Photographs
Acquisitions — Photography. The largest museum acquisition of Laura Aguilar’s photography, a cache of 35 photos produced during her...
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