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Historian

Writing about photography and American culture for magazines, newspapers, museum catalogues, books and more.

Nineteenth Century

  • From Antietam to Gettysburg to the Sketchbook: Alexander Gardner [pdf]

  • The Invisible Photographs of William H. Rau

  • Frances Benjamin Johnston at the Smithsonian

  • George W. Warren

  • Philadelphia Naturalistic Photography, 1865-1906

  • Thomas Eakins and the Photograph

Twentieth Century

  • Mothers of Invention: Women’s Photobooks in the 1970s

  • Pictures at Work: Romana Javitz and the NYPL Picture collection 

  • Sugimoto’s Lightning Fields, BJP [pdf]

  • Sam Wagstaff and the Mysterious Thing

  • Erotic Photography at Conde Nast

  • Lee Miller, Surrealist Photographer

  • The Essential Tact of Nickolas Muray [pdf]

  • Famous and Non-Famous: Mary Ellen Mark 

  • In With the Old: Antiquarian Avant Garde [pdf]

  • This is the Photo League

  • Inside the Archives of Photojournalism

  • A New Look at LOOK [pdf]

  • What Price History? Abe Zapruder’s Movie [pdf]

  • Sharbat Gula Today

Photojournalism and Magazine Photography

  • “A Remarkable Package of Photographs for a Dime”

  • “Success in the USA: Grey Villett at LIFE”

  • Shot from the Canon: Advertising in Vogue

  • States of Emergency: Richard Avedon at Work 1950-1985 

  • Erotic Photography at Conde Nast

  • Picturing Iraq War Veterans

  • The Archives of Photojournalism

  • Irving Penn

  • Avedon Portraits [pdf]

  • W. Eugene Smith in Pittsburgh

  • Larger Than Life [Joe McNally]

  • Helen Gee and Limelight

  • Visual Culture Goes to War

Biography and Obituary

  • Eyes Wide Open, Stanley Kubrick [pdf]

  • Robert Frank, 1924-2019

  • Eve Arnold

  • Martine Franck

  • Inge Morath

  • Tina Modotti [pdf]

  • Leni Riefenstahl [pdf]

  • Edward Steichen [pdf]

  • Yusuf Karsh

  • Halsman/Dali

  • Irving Penn [pdf]

  • Gordon Parks

  • Herb Ritts

  • Yusuf Karsh

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