" ... Approximately 100 images, some single and some multiple portraits, edited from the almost 800 large-format glass-plate negatives and thousands of individual portraits made by Durham-born and self-taught photographer Hugh Mangum and currently housed at Duke University's Rub…
The village of al-#x91;Araqib has been destroyed and rebuilt more than seventy times in the ongoing #x93;battle over the Negev,#x94; an Israeli state campaign to uproot the Palestinian Bedouins from the northern threshold of the desert. Unlike other frontiers fought over during …
Barack Obama, the icon -- At the crossroads of hope and despair -- Space available -- American studies road trip -- I want my country back -- Reflections. "Between 2009 and 2013, as the nation contemplated the historic election of Barack Obama and endured the effects of the Gre…
Snapshots -- America -- Day -- Maxwell -- Beach -- 1968 -- Downtown -- Walks -- Night.
This is the first monographic studio of the photography of the Mexican Revolution through the photographs taken between 1910 and 1930 particularly by Mexican photographers discovering a large number of professionals -not only Agustacutein V. Casasola- who covered the armed movem…
"Since its founding in 1947, the legendary Magnum Photos agency has been telling its own story: Its photographers were concerned witnesses to history and artists on the hunt for decisive moments; their pictures were humanist documents of the postwar world. Based in unprecedented…
"Since its founding in 1947, the legendary Magnum Photos agency has been telling its own story: Its photographers were concerned witnesses to history and artists on the hunt for decisive moments; their pictures were humanist documents of the postwar world. Based in unprecedented…
"In Law and the Visual, leading legal theorists, art historians, and critics come together to present new work examining the intersection between legal and visual discourses. Proceeding chronologically, the volume offers leading analyses of the juncture between legal and visual …
"The astounding visual record left by photographers and filmmakers of modern China constitutes a massive archive that awaits incorporation into historical research on China. This volume's studies by multiple contributors offer potential paths for revising practices in historical…
Introduction. Africa and the Ambivalence of seeing / Patricia Hayes and Gary Minkley -- Ambivalent Mediations: Photographic Desire, Anxiety, and Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Changed Africa / Isabelle de Rezende -- Empty Photographs: Ethnography and the Lacunae of African Hist…
