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The ‘Chok’ of Image ‘Constellations in Themselves’: Reframing Walter Benjamin’s ‘Little History of Photography’ (1931) History of Photography (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-09 Gerd Hurm
This article revisits some of the principal documents and guiding assumptions that have shaped the debate about the significance of Walter Benjamin’s landmark essay ‘Little History of Photography’ ...
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Learning to Collect Photographs in the 1970s History of Photography (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-01 Molly Kalkstein
In 1976, Anne Wilkes Tucker became the founding curator of the Photography Department at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, going on to organise more than forty exhibitions, publish dozens of articl...
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A Lexicon for Positioning ‘The Idea Photography’ in Our Nation’s Art Museum History of Photography (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-01 Audrey Sands
Between the 1930s and the 1990s, as art museums across the USA began contending with what place photography might hold within their programmes, key individuals framed photography’s value in languag...
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Maria Morris Hambourg with Allison Pappas and Natalie Zelt: Excerpt from Framing the Field Interview Transcript, 2–4 May 2022 History of Photography (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-01
Published in History of Photography (Vol. 47, No. 2, 2023)
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Anne Wilkes Tucker with Allison Pappas and Natalie Zelt: Excerpt from Framing the Field Interview Transcript, 4–6 April 2022 History of Photography (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-01
Published in History of Photography (Vol. 47, No. 2, 2023)
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Maria Morris Hambourg: A Curator Lighthouse for Photography History of Photography (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-01 Delphine Sims
Founding curator of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Department of Photographs, Maria Morris Hambourg’s impact on the field of photography is incalculable. Across a multi-decade career, Hambourg in...
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Sandra S. Phillips with Allison Pappas and Natalie Zelt: Excerpt from Framing the Field Interview Transcript, 21–23 March 2022 History of Photography (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-01
Published in History of Photography (Vol. 47, No. 2, 2023)
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‘Letting the pictures […] do the job’: Sandy Phillips at SFMOMA History of Photography (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-01 Emilia Mickevicius
Across three decades at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), curator Sandra S. Phillips (American, born 1945) built a distinctive photography collection and exhibition programme driven ...
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Deborah Willis with Allison Pappas and Natalie Zelt: Excerpt from Framing the Field Interview Transcript, 8–9 June 2022 History of Photography (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-01
Published in History of Photography (Vol. 47, No. 2, 2023)
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After the Flood: Notes on Photography and the Archive History of Photography (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-01 Anni A. Pullagura
The often-theorised relationship between the photograph as a democratic object and medium for knowledge production and the archive continues to influence the making of the photographic collection. ...
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Sarah Greenough with Allison Pappas and Natalie Zelt: Excerpt from Framing the Field Interview Transcript, 7–9 March 2022 History of Photography (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-01
Published in History of Photography (Vol. 47, No. 2, 2023)
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Contributors History of Photography (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-01
Published in History of Photography (Vol. 47, No. 2, 2023)
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Enfolding History: Identities, Performances and Contexts in an Early Ethnographic Album from Natal, South Africa History of Photography (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-28 Christopher Morton
The histories of anthropology and photography are closely entwined, and nowhere more so than in southern Africa, where new European settler colonies emerged at around the same time as technology tr...
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‘The thing will be alive’: Nancy Newhall and a Vision for Photography History of Photography (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-14 Kate Palmer Albers
From the 1940s until 1974, the American curator, writer and editor Nancy Newhall was a pivotal and visionary figure in the emergence of the field of creative photography in the USA. Newhall’s colla...
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Photography and Early Motor Touring in Britain History of Photography (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-29 Sara Dominici
This article explores the arrival of the motorcar in Britain as it polarised photographers’ opinions like no other means of transport before. The article asks, more specifically, why those photogra...
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Framing the Field: An Intergenerational Conversation about the Making of Photography in US Museums History of Photography (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Allison Pappas, Natalie Zelt
Framing the Field is the first project of its kind devoted to recording, making public and interpreting untold histories of the institutional formation of the field of photography in the USA from t...
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An African Looks at America: Picturing Racial Integration for Africa, 1956–68 History of Photography (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Darren Newbury
The global tour of Edward Steichen’s 1955 photographic exhibition The Family of Man, sponsored by the United States Information Agency (USIA), has long been viewed as the defining moment for the me...
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Contact Zones: Photography, Migration, and Cultural Encounters in the United States History of Photography (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Erica Toffoli
Published in History of Photography (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Warring Visions: Photography and Vietnam History of Photography (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Kimberly Schreiber
Published in History of Photography (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Naomi Savage: Stretching the Limits of Photography History of Photography (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Adam Monohon
Published in History of Photography (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Contributors History of Photography (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Patrizia Di Bello
Published in History of Photography (Vol. 47, No. 1, 2023)
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The Slide Lecture: Introduction to a Special Issue of History of Photography History of Photography (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Tal-Or Ben-Choreen, Karla McManus
Published in History of Photography (Vol. 47, No. 1, 2023)
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Persuasion by Projection: Charles Piazzi Smyth and the Performance of Scientific Expertise History of Photography (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Stéphanie Hornstein
In 1864, Charles Piazzi Smyth, Astronomer-Royal for Scotland, set out to measure the Great Pyramid of Giza in order to prove that its design had been devised by none other than God himself. Smyth’s...
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Vivan Sundaram is Not a Photographer: The Photographic Work of Vivan Sundaram History of Photography (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Ajay Sinha
Published in History of Photography (Vol. 47, No. 1, 2023)
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Photographs and the Practice of History: A Short Primer History of Photography (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Teresa Mendes Flores
Published in History of Photography (Vol. 47, No. 1, 2023)
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From the Gestell to the Reprogestell: Notes on the Technological Continuum History of Photography (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Eduardo Ralickas
This article casts a retrospective glance at the technological continuum from which the art history slide lecture springs. The article focuses specifically on the copy apparatuses widely used to ma...
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From Art History Pedagogic Resource to Post-Digital Art Medium: Shifting Cultural Values in a Dismantled Slide Library History of Photography (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Annebella Pollen
Over the last decade, 35mm slide libraries that were used to support art history teaching in higher education in Europe and North America have been widely dismantled and dispersed. This article exa...
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Illuminating the Science of Art History: The Advent of the Slide Lecture in France History of Photography (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Kim Timby
In the late 1880s and early 1890s, a small number of professors – including Charles Diehl, Louis Courajod and Henry Lemonnier – started projecting photographic reproductions in their art history cl...
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Contributors History of Photography (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Patrizia Di Bello
Published in History of Photography (Vol. 46, No. 4, 2022)
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‘A Lot of People to Live With’: Dyadic Departures in Mary Ellen Mark’s Pursuit of Faces in Tandem History of Photography (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Sally Stein
Just-Killed Epilogue as On-the-Rebound Prologue (in lieu of an abstract)Call me naïve to be shocked when the following article was killed by fiat just as it was poised to be published in a Mary Ell...
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Victorian Facebooks: Privacy Concerns at William Notman’s Studio History of Photography (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Sarah Parsons, Vanessa Nicholas
The history of issues of privacy in relation to photography is generally dated to the introduction of handheld cameras and halftone printing at the end of the nineteenth century. Citing a remarkabl...
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Inventing a Photographic Past for Japan: From A Century of Japanese Photography (1968) to the Construction of the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography History of Photography (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Kelly Midori McCormick
In 1968 two generations of Japanese photographers came together to research and curate the most comprehensive exhibition of the history of Japanese photography to date. Examining five hundred thous...
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The Black Panthers of Israel and Ya’akov Shofar’s Musrara Photographs: Taming and Politicisation (1978–83) History of Photography (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Na’ama Klorman-Eraqi
In 1971, men from Musrara, an impoverished Jerusalem neighbourhood, formed the Black Panthers in protest against institutionalised discrimination against Jews from Muslim countries (Mizrahim). This...
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Photography, Reconstruction and the Cultural History of the Postwar European City History of Photography (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Alistair Cartwright
Published in History of Photography (Vol. 46, No. 4, 2022)
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Negative/Positive: A History of Photography History of Photography (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Laurie Taylor
Published in History of Photography (Vol. 46, No. 4, 2022)
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Making Modernity in the Islamic Mediterranean History of Photography (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Alexandra Solovyev
Published in History of Photography (Vol. 46, No. 4, 2022)
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Another Country: British Documentary Photography since 1945 History of Photography (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Brian Stokoe
Published in History of Photography (Vol. 46, No. 4, 2022)
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Capitalism and the Camera: Essays on Photography and Extraction History of Photography (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Harrison Adams
Published in History of Photography (Vol. 46, No. 4, 2022)
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Contributors History of Photography (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-08-17 Patrizia Di Bello
Published in History of Photography (Vol. 46, No. 2-3, 2022)
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Stefano Lecchi: A Photographic Pilgrimage of War History of Photography (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-08-03 Beth Saunders
This article examines the photographic career of Stefano Lecchi, the Italian photographer best known for his series of photographs documenting the aftermath of the defence of the Roman Republic in 1849, a key episode in Italy’s nationalist movement, the Risorgimento. This study concentrates on the album Fotografi di Roma, which presents thirty of Lecchi’s salted paper prints from that series together
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‘Picturing a Moment’: The Colonial Visions of Newspaper Photography in Early Twentieth-century Korea History of Photography (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Janet Poole
This article explores the early introduction of photographic images to the daily newspaper in Korea in the second decade of the twentieth century. The technology of mass printing photographic images was pioneered by the Government General’s Korean-language newspaper, Maeil sinbo, in the years immediately after Japan’s colonial occupation began. The encounter between the two technologies of photography
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Intimate Archive: Dayanita Singh, the Photo-book and Feminist Iteration History of Photography (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-06-20 Rebecca M. Brown
Dayanita Singh (b. 1961) has long pursued a practise of close relationships with her subjects, human and otherwise. In pairing this commitment with disseminating her photographs through book and portable museum formats, in which photographs are reused over the course of decades, she has developed a practice that she recognises as fundamentally archival. This article examines two distinct elements of
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Humanising the Squatter: Photography in the Service of Resettlement in Emergency-era Malaya History of Photography (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-05-23 Jeremy E. Taylor
This article explores the ways in which photography was used by the colonial state in Malaya to promote the supposed success of resettlement – the counterinsurgency scheme through which around half a million people were forcibly moved into camps, later renamed ‘New Villages’, during the Malayan Emergency (1948–60). While this study engages with the ways in which the racialised category of the ‘squatter’
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Contributors History of Photography (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-05-22
Published in History of Photography (Vol. 46, No. 1, 2022)
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Reproductions, a Special Issue of History of Photography History of Photography (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-05-22 Sofya Dmitrieva, Dominique de Font-Réaulx, Michelle Henning, Patrizia Di Bello
Published in History of Photography (Vol. 46, No. 1, 2022)
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Manet and Photography: Looking at Olympia History of Photography (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-04-13 Kathryn Kremnitzer
Édouard Manet’s life and work have been studied using photographic sources that provide essential yet still underutilised information about his oeuvre and artistic process. Beginning in the 1860s, Manet employed the firm of Anatole Godet to photograph his paintings, probably as records of stock, and this article considers how Manet may have used these photographs as the basis for tracings and watercolours
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Women Photographers of the Pacific World, 1857–1930 History of Photography (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-04-06 Martyna Zielinska
Published in History of Photography (Vol. 46, No. 2-3, 2022)
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Latinx Photography in the United States: A Visual History History of Photography (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-04-06 Jason Weems
Published in History of Photography (Vol. 46, No. 2-3, 2022)
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See/Saw: Looking at Photographs, Essays 2010–2020 History of Photography (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-04-06 Brian Stokoe
Published in History of Photography (Vol. 46, No. 2-3, 2022)
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Photography in the Great War: The Ethics of Emerging Medical Collections from the Great War History of Photography (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-04-06 Christine Slobogin
Published in History of Photography (Vol. 46, No. 2-3, 2022)
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Empire, Early Photography and Spectacle: The Global Career of Showman Daguerreotypist J.W. Newland History of Photography (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-04-06 Anne Maxwell
Published in History of Photography (Vol. 46, No. 2-3, 2022)
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The Portrait and the Colonial Imaginary: Photography between France and Africa 1900–1939 History of Photography (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-04-06 Jennifer Bajorek
Published in History of Photography (Vol. 46, No. 2-3, 2022)
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Panoramic Ambitions: Collecting Rubens’s Oeuvre in Reproduction, 1877–1927 History of Photography (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-03-27 Griet Bonne
The art historical congress organised for the 1877 Rubens Year in Antwerp led to the establishment of a committee to collect Rubens’s works through engraved and photographic reproductions (1880–1910). Arguing that the art historical notion of oeuvre originated from the increasing reproducibility of works of art, this article contextualises the Committee’s collection and the fifty-year history of its
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Cultural Capital and Photographic Technologies at the Berlin Photographic Company in the USA History of Photography (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-03-27 Julie Codell
In this article I explore photogravure catalogues of the Berlin Photographic Company (BPC), a print publisher founded in 1862 specialising in reproductions of works of art, and in particular those published by its New York office from 1892 to 1916. In promoting its reproductions, the BPC connected social, aesthetic and technical knowledge, emphasising the quality of photogravure technologies while
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Countersurveillance, Photography and Revolution in the Irish War of Independence History of Photography (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-11-01 Orla Fitzpatrick
This article examines a photographic album compiled by an Irish Republican Army unit during the Irish War of Independence, a guerrilla struggle fought in Ireland from 1919 to 1921 between the Irish Republican Army and the British Army, along with the quasi-military Royal Irish Constabulary. The employment of techniques and surveillance methods similar to those of the British state and police forces
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Artwork Reproductions in Polish Identity Building after World War II History of Photography (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-10-27 Dorota Łuczak, Aleksandra Paradowska
Reproductions of artworks were a crucial element of official narratives aimed at shaping Polish identity after World War II. In this article, we explore the strategies employed in constructing visual messages in the first volume of the book series Ziemie Staropolski (Old Poland’s Territories) titled Dolny Śląsk (Lower Silesia), published in 1948 and devoted to the Western territories ceded to Poland
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Beyond Sentimentality: The Family as Patron, Subject and Author of Early Photography in Colonial Australia History of Photography (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-09-26 Elisa deCourcy
This article investigates the first decade and a half of photographic practice in the Australian colonies from the perspective of family participation in the portrait marketplace. The article argues that this period has largely been narrated around determining the point of photography’s arrival. This approach risks underplaying both the significant innovation and entrepreneurship that defined early
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Numbering The Ladies Waldegrave: Questions of Status and Display History of Photography (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-08-30 Madeleine S. J. Page
At first glance, it appears as though Sir Joshua Reynolds’s The Ladies Waldegrave (1780) is in two places at once: Strawberry Hill House and the National Gallery, Edinburgh. Despite their visual indistinguishability, however, the former is a copy of the latter created by Factum Foundation in 2018. In this article, I discuss the ontological relation between paintings and their visually indistinguishable
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Faux Nudes: Body Stockings and Photography at the fin de siècle History of Photography (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-04-08 Mary Bergstein
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Creative Collaborations: Australian Photomurals and International Expositions 1937–40 History of Photography (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-03-28 Catherine De Lorenzo