Historian
Writing about photography and American culture for magazines, newspapers, museum catalogues, books and more.
Nineteenth Century
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From Antietam to Gettysburg to the Sketchbook: Alexander Gardner [pdf]
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The Invisible Photographs of William H. Rau
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Frances Benjamin Johnston at the Smithsonian
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George W. Warren
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Philadelphia Naturalistic Photography, 1865-1906
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Thomas Eakins and the Photograph
Twentieth Century
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Mothers of Invention: Women’s Photobooks in the 1970s
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Pictures at Work: Romana Javitz and the NYPL Picture collection
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Sugimoto’s Lightning Fields, BJP [pdf]
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Sam Wagstaff and the Mysterious Thing
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Erotic Photography at Conde Nast
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Lee Miller, Surrealist Photographer
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The Essential Tact of Nickolas Muray [pdf]
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Famous and Non-Famous: Mary Ellen Mark
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In With the Old: Antiquarian Avant Garde [pdf]
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This is the Photo League
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Inside the Archives of Photojournalism
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A New Look at LOOK [pdf]
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What Price History? Abe Zapruder’s Movie [pdf]
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Sharbat Gula Today
Photojournalism and Magazine Photography
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“A Remarkable Package of Photographs for a Dime”
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“Success in the USA: Grey Villett at LIFE”
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Shot from the Canon: Advertising in Vogue
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States of Emergency: Richard Avedon at Work 1950-1985
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Erotic Photography at Conde Nast
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Picturing Iraq War Veterans
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The Archives of Photojournalism
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Irving Penn
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Avedon Portraits [pdf]
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W. Eugene Smith in Pittsburgh
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Larger Than Life [Joe McNally]
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Helen Gee and Limelight
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Visual Culture Goes to War