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VMS LEADERSHIP — SAA Description and Visual Materials Section Discussion (2025)
At SAA Chicago in 2024, the Visual Materials and Description Sections hosted an in-person discussion on the description of visual...
Feb 3


NEW IN PRINT — Queer Anatomies: Aesthetics and Desire in the Anatomical Image, 1700-1900
Michael Sappol. "In centuries past, sexual body-parts and same-sex desire were unÂmenÂÂtionables deÂbarred from polite converÂsaÂtion and...
Jul 18, 2024


NEW IN PRINT — Ah Ah: Conscience Letters and Photographs from the Haleakala & Hawai'i Volcanoes National Parks
Ryan Thompson. "Ah! Sorry… Following a trail of regret from the Petrified Forest (the subject of his classic Bad Luck, Hot Rocks) to the...
Jul 18, 2024


BOOK REVIEWS — Picture-Work: How Libraries, Museums, and Stock Agencies Launched a New Image Economy
Diana Kamin. The MIT Press, 2023. Note: I approach this review with experience in stock photography editing and content management, as...
Jul 18, 2024


NEW IN PRINT — Black Meme: A History of the Images that Make Us
Legacy Russell. "In Black Meme, Legacy Russell, award-winning author of the groundbreaking Glitch Feminism, explores the 'meme' as mapped...
Jun 14, 2024


NEW IN PRINT — Deaths of Artists: From the Archives of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Jim Moske. “Deep in the archives of The Metropolitan Museum of Art are two strange old scrapbooks packed with newspaper obituaries of...
Apr 29, 2024


BOOK REVIEWS — Archive Everything: Mapping the Everyday
Gabriella Giannachi. The MIT Press, 2016. We often think of archives as repositories of objects belonging to the past, but in Archive...
Apr 2, 2024


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

IN DEPTH — Going to Bat for a Fan Favorite Collection
Among the many treasures at the Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division, you can find over 2,000 baseball cards in the Benjamin...
Nov 1, 2022

IN FOCUS — Black Archives
Get Social — Instagram. @blackarchives.co A luminous selection of archival imagery that documents Black experience in the twentieth...
Jul 18, 2022
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