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Mar 30

NEW IN PRINT — Visual Activism in the 21st Century: Art, Protest and Resistance in an Uncertain World

Stephanie Hartle (Anthology Editor) and Darcy White (Anthology Editor). “The world is in crisis, bringing activists and protesters onto...

Feb 12

BOOK REVIEWS — Depth Effects: Dimensionality from Camera to Computation

Brooke Belisle. University of California Press, 2023. How does depth inform the way we see and experience the world, and can it be truly...

Dec 2, 2023

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 — 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...

Jun 9, 2023

BOOK REVIEWS — Photobooks &

Matt Johnston. Onomatopee 220, 2021. With an overarching goal of increasing accessibility of photobooks to a broader readership, Matt...

Jul 18, 2022

NEW IN PRINT — The Lives of Images, Vol. 2: Analogy, Attunement, and Attention

Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa (Editor). Image Management. “The Lives of Images, edited by Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa, is a set of contemporary...

Jul 18, 2022

NEW IN PRINT — Photography and the Arts: Essays on 19th Century Practices and Debates

Juliet Hacking (Editor) and Joanne Lukitsh (Editor). Photography — Culture and Theory. “Photography, both in the form of contemporary...

Jul 18, 2022

NEW IN PRINT — Photofascism: Photography, Film, and Exhibition Culture in 1930s Germany and Italy

Vanessa Rocco. Photography — Culture and Theory. “Photography and fascism in interwar Europe developed into a highly toxic and...

Jul 18, 2022

NEW IN PRINT — Visions of Nature: How Landscape Photography Shaped Settler Colonialism

Jarrod Hore. Photography — Culture and Theory. “Visions of Nature revives the work of late nineteenth-century landscape photographers who...