top of page
Search


VMS LEADERSHIP — Joint Message from the Chair and Immediate Past-Chair (2020)
To put it mildly, 2020 has been a year like no other in our collective memories. It’s been filled with challenges and tragedies that none...
Jan 4, 2021


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
bottom of page
