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VMS LEADERSHIP — Get to Know Our Newest Steering Committee Member (2020)
Hello everyone, I am the incoming member-at-large for VMS. I am an archivist and visual artist. This duality is easily understood by...
Jan 4, 2021


NEW IN PRINT — Writing Visual Histories
Florence Grant (Editor), Ludmilla Jordanova (Editor). Visual History — Theory and Historiography. “What can visual artifacts tell us...
Jan 4, 2021


NEW IN PRINT — Imagining Everyday Life: Engagements with Vernacular Photography
Tina Campt (Editor), Marianne Hirsch (Editor), Gil Hochberg (Editor), Brian Wallis (Editor). Photography — Culture and Theory. “Imagining...
Jan 4, 2021


NEW IN PRINT — African Cosmologies: Photography, Time and the Other
Fotofest International. Photography — Exhibition. “Curated by renowned London-based curator, Mark Sealy MBE, the FotoFest Biennial 2020,...
Jan 4, 2021


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
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