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Jun 14

NEW IN PRINT — Magnificent Intentions: John Wood, First Federal Photographer (1856-1863)

Adrienne Lundgren. “Despite his prolific career as the first US federal photographer, John Wood has been largely forgotten… Adrienne...

Apr 29

NEW IN PRINT — Audubon as Artist: A New Look at The Birds of America

Roberta J. M. Olson. “John James Audubon (1785–1851), artist, naturalist, and creator of the celebrated The Birds of America, is widely...

Apr 29

NEW IN PRINT — Hiroshige's One Hundred Famous Views of Edo: The Definitive Collector's Edition

Andreas Marks. “Utagawa Hiroshige's unique landscape series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (modern-day Tokyo), first published in the...

Apr 29

NEW IN PRINT — Illustration, Narrative and The Suffragette: An Illustrative Enquiry

Mireille Fauchon. “Through an investigation of the Holloway prison writings of the suffragette Katie Gliddon, Mireille Fauchon explores...

Apr 29

NEW IN PRINT — Irving Penn: Centennial

Maria Morris Hambourg and Jeff L. Rosenheim. “Irving Penn (1917–2009) was among the most esteemed and influential photographers of the...

Apr 2

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...

Mar 30

NEW IN PRINT — Where Words and Images Meet

Ludmilla Jordanova (Anthology Editor) , Florence Grant (Anthology Editor). “Bringing together a fascinatingly diverse yet closely related...

Mar 30

NEW IN PRINT — Visual Culture in Freud's Vienna: Science, Eros, and the Psychoanalytic Imagination

Mary Bergstein (Author), Mari Ruti (Series Editor), Esther Rashkin (Series Editor), Peter L. Rudnytsky (Series Editor). “Visual Culture...

Mar 30

NEW IN PRINT — Portrait and Place: Photography in Senegal, 1840–1960

Giulia Paoletti. “When the daguerreotype first arrived in sub-Saharan Africa in the early nineteenth century, local kingdoms still held...

Mar 30

NEW IN PRINT — Color Charts: A History

Anne Varichon. “The need to categorize and communicate color has mobilized practitioners and scholars for centuries. Color Charts...