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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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Brigman – a critical biography of this early feminist artist, including reprints of Songs of a Pagan and her previously unpublished companion volume Wild Flute Songs.

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 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 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.

An alternative history of photography that reframes current practices of computational imaging.

An environmental history of chemical photography through the lens of its deep connections to empire and industry.

This edited volume presents a nuanced exploration of how illustrated magazines shaped global visual culture between 1910 and 1970.

Heap-O-Livin’ presents images by Wyoming photographer Lora Webb Nichols (1883–1962), who documented Encampment’s ranching and mining life and the women who sustained it. Amid isolation and patriarchy, Nichols revealed a vibrant female community whose social visits and picture-making captured both domestic labor and the joy of women’s companionship.

The long-awaited first career survey from photographer Amos Badertscher, who comprehensively documented a uniquely American queer underworld

This book shows how from the nineteenth century to the present, the demands and privileges of masculinity shaped photographers’ careers. The case studies, photo formats, and cultural contexts explored here are diverse, but what links them is a concern for how men navigate(d) the photography profession, whether they thought of themselves as scientific photographers, educators, or artists.

Afterimages of Apartheid shows how photographs can be mobilised as a critical tool for understanding the ongoing effects of apartheid in contemporary South Africa. This vivid account of the photography of apartheid will be of interest to students and researchers across the fields of South African history, visual studies, memory studies, art history, photography studies and transitional justice.

American photographer Arnold Newman, over his eight-decade career, became known for his portraits of post-WWII artists and icons, often shot for magazines. This publication explores how magazine commissions shaped his work and reputation.

In Negative Originals, Juanita Solano Roa reexamines early 20th-century Colombian photography, revealing how racial ideologies were constructed and contested. Taking the photographic negative as methodology, she uncovers marginalized subjects and challenges dominant narratives of race, gender, and progress in Colombian visual history.

Verdant Land by Kathya Maria Landeros is a photographic exploration of her family’s century-long migration between Mexico and the U.S., shaped by agricultural labor. Blending personal memory with broader histories, the project reflects on immigrant contributions to the American West, honoring ancestors like her great-grandmother Mama Chuy and generations of Latino workers.

Landeros traveled through western American states between 2011-2024, creating photographs that reflect our interdependence both with the landscape and with one another.