Artes Visuales: The Latin American Avant-Garde in Print
Daniel Menzo Daniel Menzo

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.

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Polaroid:
Daniel Menzo Daniel Menzo

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.

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Fashion in the Late Ottoman Empire. Photography and Identity in a Global City
Daniel Menzo Daniel Menzo

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.

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Enseñar Fotografía. Notas reunidas
Daniel Menzo Daniel Menzo

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.

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Portraits of Unbelonging: Photographic Journeys Across Borders
Daniel Menzo Daniel Menzo

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.

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Grey Crawford – The Complete Chroma Series, Los Angeles 1978–85
Daniel Menzo Daniel Menzo

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.

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Chicano Camera Culture: A Photographic History, 1966 to 2026
Daniel Menzo Daniel Menzo

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.

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