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NEW IN PRINT — Shellac in Visual and Sonic Culture: Unsettled Matter
Elodie A. Roy. “This book charts the unsettled media cultures and deep time of shellac, retracing its journey from the visual to the...
Dec 2, 2023


NEW IN PRINT — A Curious Herbal: Elizabeth Blackwell's Pioneering Masterpiece of Botanical Art
Marta McDowell (Editor) and Janet Stiles Tyson (Contributor). “In the 1730s, Elizabeth Blackwell (1699–c. 1758) found herself penniless,...
Dec 2, 2023


NEW IN PRINT — Trailblazing Women Printmakers
Elena M. Sarni. Trailblazing Women Printmakers: Virginia Lee Burton Demetrios and the Folly Cove Designers is a visual history of “one of...
Dec 2, 2023


NEW IN PRINT — The New Brownies' Book: A Love Letter to Black Families
Karida L. Brown and Charly Palmer. “Inspired by the groundbreaking work of W. E. B. Du Bois, this beautiful collection brings together an...
Dec 2, 2023


NEW IN PRINT — The Modern Venus: Dress, Underwear and Accessories in the late 18th-Century Atlantic
Elisabeth Gernerd. “From rumps and stays to muffs and handkerchiefs, underwear and accessories were critical components of the...
Dec 2, 2023


VMS LEADERSHIP — Annual Meeting Proposal Brainstorming (2023)
Visual Materials Section event Thursday, November 2 @ 3:30pm ET / 12:30pm PT Do you have a project or an idea related to visual materials...
Oct 30, 2023


IN DEPTH — Lessons Learned in Preserving a Commercial Photography Studio
Over the past few years, the Missouri Historical Society’s Photos and Prints Department has undertaken a large-scale project to fully...
Jul 10, 2023


BOOK REVIEWS — Photobooks &
Matt Johnston. Onomatopee 220, 2021. With an overarching goal of increasing accessibility of photobooks to a broader readership, Matt...
Jun 9, 2023


VMS LEADERSHIP — Annual Section Meeting Agenda (2023)
Join us — June 29 from 2-3:30pm Eastern / 11am-12:30pm Pacific — for the Visual Materials Section Annual Meeting! The meeting will take...
Jun 6, 2023


VMS LEADERSHIP — Annual Section Meeting Details (2023)
Please save the date — June 29 from 2-3:30pm Eastern / 11am-12:30pm Pacific — for the Visual Materials Section Annual Meeting! The...
May 1, 2023
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