Artes Visuales: The Latin American Avant-Garde in Print
Artes Visuales: The Latin American Avant-Garde in Print is a recent publication emerging from sustained research into one of the most influential magazines in Latin American art. The volume brings together essays by Hunter College MA and MFA students, revisiting Artes Visuales as both a publication and a transnational network.
Polaroid:
Through essays, interviews, and case studies, this richly illustrated volume examines the reception, uses, and cultural impact of Polaroid photography in Hungary from the 1970s. It explores how Polaroid practices differed from those in the West, highlighting diverse artistic applications. Written in Hungarian, it includes an English-language summary.
Mensch. Raum. Geschichte. Die Fotografische Sammlung im Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf
A visual journey through the city of Düsseldorf seen through the lens of the City Museum’s Photographic Collection. Spanning local photographic history from its beginnings to the present, this book offers a first comprehensive insight into this rich collection, vividly capturing its thematic and material diversity.
Fashion in the Late Ottoman Empire. Photography and Identity in a Global City
During the long nineteenth century, the women of Istanbul transformed their appearance, adopting European dress and new modes of self-fashioning, including photographs. Drawing on a close examination of surviving garments, photographs, paintings and writing by Ottoman and foreign women, Fashion in late Ottoman Istanbul reconstructs a complex fashion history, and the dramatic changes that took place in women’s lives in this period.
After School 課後
Angela Chen’s debut image-text book After School 課後 brings together autobiography, photographs, collage, and archival documents to unpack the culture of buxiban (after school tutoring centers) in predominantly East Asian communities in the San Gabriel Valley, CA.
V.R.P. 99. Photographs for Another Fin de Siècle: Vitold Rola Piekarski in Rural Romania (1899)
The first book-length bilingual (Romanian-English) study and album devoted to the documentary photographic work of Polish graphic artist Vitold Rola Piekarski (1857–1909), published following the rediscovery of his glass-plate negatives in the Ethnological Archive of the National Museum of the Romanian Peasant, Bucharest.
Enseñar Fotografía. Notas reunidas
Teaching Photography: Notes Assembled explores photography as a way of seeing rather than merely producing images. Through concise reflections and teaching notes, Philip Perkis shares insights on perception, creativity, attention, and the emotional depth of photographic practice. This Spanish translation by Bandia Ribeiro Cendán.
Ann Hamilton: still and moving • the tactile image
Under one cover, an artist's book followed by a scholarly essay. This volume accompanied an exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art in 2025-2026.
Photography as a Way of Life: Minor White, Aaron Siskind, and Harry Callahan
A richly illustrated look at three visionary artists who charted new directions for photography in mid-century America. Published in association with the Princeton University Art Museum on the occasion of the exhibition Photography as a Way of Life: Minor White, Aaron Siskind, and Harry Callahan.
Portraits of Unbelonging: Photographic Journeys Across Borders
Almost two decades before photographs were attached to passports anywhere in the world, Ottoman Armenian expatriation portraiture is one of the earliest examples of the use of surveillance photography for border control. Written in conversation with descendants of those photographed, working across borders, Portraits of Unbelonging offers both a genealogy of the document-based global security regimes that govern citizenship and mobility today and an intimate history of unbelonging and belonging.
Grey Crawford – The Complete Chroma Series, Los Angeles 1978–85
A complete, two-volume slipcased special edition documenting the radical, experimental photography of Grey Crawford’s Chroma series. Essays by Jonathan Casciani, Ashley Gallant, Hannah Glauner, Timothy Persons, Mark Rawlinson, Lyle Rexer, and detailed, technical descriptions of the process used to create the images in the darkroom by the artist himself.
Chicano Camera Culture: A Photographic History, 1966 to 2026
For decades, the contributions of Chicano photographers to American art history have been largely overlooked. Chicano Camera Culture: A Photographic History, 1966–2026—published to accompany a major exhibition at the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture (“The Cheech”) of the Riverside Art Museum—offers the first comprehensive survey of photography by Chicano artists based throughout the US.
The California Camera Club: Collective Visions in the Making of the American West
With some 400 members, the California Camera Club was the largest photography network in the United States in the early twentieth century. In The California Camera Club, Carolin Görgen recaptures the lost history of this community—and reveals its critical but little-known role in defining the popular image of California, and the American West generally, for posterity.
Inventing Nadar: A History of Photographic Firsts
Tracking the nineteenth-century photographer Félix Nadar’s many claims to technical priority, Inventing Nadar examines the photographic first as a cultural and material process that has shaped the history of photography.
Anne Brigman's Songs: Her Life, Her Photographs, Her Poems
A new book on Anne Brigman – a critical biography of this early feminist artist, including reprints of Songs of a Pagan and her previously unpublished companion volume Wild Flute Songs.
Chinatowns: Tong Yan Gaai, Photographs by Morris Lum
Morris Lum reveals how Chinatowns across North America are defined by both their evolving architecture and their rich cultural identity. Awarded the 2023 Photography Network Project Grant.
At the Limits of the Gaze: Selected Writings by Takuma Nakahira
At the Limits of the Gaze is the first English-language volume of essays by Japanese photographer Takuma Nakahira, known for his participation in Provoke. The collection spans 1970-1976, and challenges the expressive limits of photography.
Tracy Hills
Tracy Hills is a collaboration between Los Angeles-based photographers Ryan McIntosh and Yogan Muller in which they explore and document Tracy Hills—a new master-planned community of 4,700 homes currently being built in the central valley of California.
Depth Effects: Dimensionality from Camera to Computation
An alternative history of photography that reframes current practices of computational imaging.
A Dirty History of Photography: Chemistry, Fog and Empire
An environmental history of chemical photography through the lens of its deep connections to empire and industry.