Much of the work of being human happens in everyday places: we become able to be ourselves, see each other, and be a community. The Cities We Need, by photographer and urbanist Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani, shows us that everyday places are where we set the groundwork for a functional society.

This entry in the British Film Institute’s “Film Classics” series is devoted to the feminist avant-garde film Riddles of the Sphinx (1977). Lamm’s study of this intricate film explores how it utilizes language to challenge Hollywood’s dominant images of women and portray maternal care as a valued form of work, full of aesthetic pleasures and feminist possibilities.

On the occasion of Wolfgang Tillmans's solo exhibition at the Centre Pompidou, the original MoMA Reader has been translated to French. It has also been extended with interviews and publications from the past four years.

Discover Recuerdo: Latin American Photography at the AGO, a free digital catalogue exploring powerful photographic works from Mexico to Argentina. Curated by Marina Dumont-Gauthier, it features modernist icons, Cold War reportage, and contemporary voices, including Graciela Iturbide and Rafael Goldchain. The publication explores photography’s role in shaping memory and identity.

The remarkable modern history of efforts to visualize the human aura, the photographic technologies deployed, and the lives of its pictures in religion, science, art, and culture.

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

Think of national borders beyond mere lines: this invitation guides Nicoletta Grillo’s journey into the Swiss-Italian border, shaped through the lens of photography theory and practice. Moving between contemporary cross-border work and south-north migrations, this study unveils today’s borderscapes as dynamic constellations.

The Surface of Things uncovers how photography shaped—and was shaped by—the cosmopolitan port cities of the Swahili coast. Exploring image-making as both coercion and expression, Prita Meier reveals how photographs circulated as mobile objects of beauty, power, and resistance across the Indian Ocean world.

Tracing the lives and works of five women in four case studies, author Marie Meyerding examines the representation of women in the field of photography in South Africa in the second half of the twentieth century.

In this article-based dissertation, I problematize the concept of photographic materiality in contemporary art, which is currently evolving in two directions. On the one hand there has recently been a new interest in notably tactile methods of photographic image-making as photography is often used in collage, sculpture and mixed media. On the other hand, in the context of digitality, the materiality of the single photographic image seems to have become increasingly irrelevant. Photography in contemporary art is thus at the same time both extremely tactile and material, but also almost immaterial, a non-object. I investigate this materially twofold status through five case studies.

In Shooting for Change, Jung Joon Lee examines postwar Korean photography across multiple genres and practices, including vernacular, art, documentary, and archival photography. Tracing the history of Korean photography while considering what is disguised or lost by framing the history of photography through nationhood, Lee considers the role of photography in shaping memory of historical events, representing the ideal national family, and motivating social movements.