The Domestic Interior and the Self in Contemporary Photography
This book explores domesticity and ideas about the self, placing them into conversation with debates about photography and examples of contemporary photographic art. Each chapter focuses on a cluster of artists to explore themes including everyday objects, diary practices, domestic time, the relational self, and intimate modes of displaying photographs.
Picture Research: The Work of Intermediation from Pre-Photography to Post-Digitization
An intimate foray into the invisible work that made it possible for pictures to circulate in print and online from the 1830s to the 2010s.
Documentary Genealogies. Photography 1848–1917
This book completes the trilogy on the history of the documentary idea in photography, started with "The Worker Photography Movement, 1926-1939. Essays and documents" (2011) and "Not Yet. On the Reinvention of Documentary and Critique of Modernism. Essays and Documents, 1972-1991" (2015), also previously published by Museum Reina Sofia.
The Art Institute of Chicago Field Guide to Photography and Media
A roster of prominent artists, curators, and scholars offers a new, entirely contemporary approach to our understanding of photography and media.
Lynne Cohen: Observatories/Laboratories
Published on the occasion of the artist’s exhibition at the Centre Pompidou, this book presents photographs from the period when Cohen switched from printmaking and sculpture to photography, combining the lessons of Minimalism, Pop Art and Conceptual Art with the documentary tradition of photographers, such as Eugene Atget and Walker Evans
MoMA Goes to Paris in 1938
Caroline Riley's new book MoMA Goes to Paris in 1938 (UC Press, 2023) explores MoMA’s first international exhibition, Three Centuries of American Art, and discusses Beaumont Newhall's transcultural history of American photography, which included sixty-one daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, stereoviews, gelatin silver prints, and unlabeled processes.
The Absolute Realist: Collected Writings of Albert Renger-Patzsch, 1923–1967
This annotated anthology makes the entirety of the German photographer Albert Renger-Patzsch’s essential writings available to an English-language audience for the first time.
The Natural World
Jason Allen-Paisant, John Edmonds, David Hartt, and Nathaniel M. Stein
A commissioned collaboration between visual artists John Edmonds and David Hartt, poet and scholar Jason Allen-Paisant, and curator Nathaniel M. Stein, Natural World presents four related proposals for including silenced positions in a shared conversation about the nature of the world.
Power and Perspective: Early Photography in China
A critical reconsideration of the history of photography that explores how commerce and conflict fueled its practice in nineteenth-century China.
Mapping Methods and Materials: Photographic Heritage in Cultural and Art-historical Research. Volume 9 (XXIX) of the Proceedings of the National Library of Latvia
Co-edited by PN member Alise Tifentale, “Mapping Methods and Materials: Photographic Heritage in Cultural and Art-historical Research,” the Volume 9 (XXIX) of the Proceedings of the National Library of Latvia, features new research articles by PN members Maria Garth, Leila Anne Harris, and Alise Tifentale.
Picturing Freedom: African Americans & Their Cars, A Photographic History
Stanley B. Burns, MD & Elizabeth A. Burns
Picturing Freedom, through over 450 photographs, chronicles and celebrates the photographic history of African Americans and their cars by focusing on personal images of the pride and joy of car ownership. It is an inspiring visual narrative of American life.
Behind the Camera Japan |カメラの後ろで Gender, Power, and Politics in the History of Japanese Photography
An open-source website creating new critical directions on the histories of photography, feminist art history, and modern Japan.
Marcia Resnick: As It Is or Could Be
Frank H. Goodyear III (Author), Lisa Hostetler (Author), Casey Riley (Author), Laurie Anderson (Afterword)
Photographer Marcia Resnick (b. 1950) earned recognition as part of the legendary Downtown New York art scene of the 1970s and 1980s. Her portraits of the era’s major cultural figures, such as Jean-Michel Basquiat, John Belushi, and Susan Sontag, have contributed to the scene’s mythic status.
Wolfgang Tillmans: A Reader
Edited by Roxana Marcoci and Phil Taylor
This volume offers a panoramic collection of interviews and writings from an artist for whom language has always been a significant means of creative expression.
Muybridge and Mobility
Author: Tim Creswell and John Ott, with an introduction by Anthony W. Lee
A cultural geographer and an art historian offer fresh interpretations of Muybridge’s famous motion studies through the lenses of mobility and race.
Nudism in a Cold Climate: The Visual Culture of Naturists in Mid-20th Century Britain
Author: Annebella Pollen
Annebella Pollen’s richly illustrated study examines the idiosyncratic phenomenon of social nudism, or naturism, in 20th-century Britain, a place known for its lack of sunshine and conservative attitudes to sex.
David LEVINTHAL: “HEROES, SLUTS & SERVANTS”
Robert Hirsch, Véronique Côté, Lisa Parrish
Exhibition catalog with essays covering series Hitler Moves East, Blackface, Hell’s Belles, XXX, Barbie, and Mein Kampf, and more.
Art + Archive: Understanding the archival turn in contemporary art
Author: Sara Callahan
Art + Archive provides an in-depth analysis of the connection between art and the archive at the turn of the twenty-first century. The book examines how the archive emerged in art writing in the mid-1990s and how its subsequent ubiquity can be understood in light of wider social, technological, philosophical and art-historical conditions and concerns.
Italian Neorealist Photography
Antonella Russo provides an incisive examination of Neorealist photography, delineates its periodization, traces its instances and its progressive popularization and subsequent co-optation that occurred with the advent of the industrialization of photographic magazines.