Monica Bravo

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Modernist Photography in Mexico: Networks of Migration

As active participants in the Mexican cultural renaissance, Edward Weston, Tina Modotti and Manuel...

Clara Masnatta

en

Gisèle Freund: The Life of a Story-Teller with Camera, Retold

This re-appraisal of Berlin-born, French-naturalized, Jewish photographer and sociologist Gisèle...

Clara Bouveresse

en

Was “American” Photography a European Invention?

This paper explores the dialogue between European and “American” photography from the end of the 1930s...

Erin Nolan, Aimée Bessire

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Reimagining Todd Webb’s Photographs of 1958 Colonial Africa

This paper charts the path of Todd Webb’s 1958 U.N.-commissioned photographs of colonial Africa across...

Didier Aubert

en

Modernist Photography in Mexico: Modotti’s Letter

Photography reinvented itself in Mexico between the two World Wars, through numerous exchanges between...

Jan Baetens

fr en

The Photo Novel: a Latin Genre

From 1947 to 1968, the long-scorned photo novel was one of Europe and Latin America’s most popular...

Clara Bouveresse

fr en

Photographic Agencies

Photographic agencies developed at the beginning of the 20th century in the context of a rise of...

Jonathan Dentler

en

Wire Photography and Transatlantic Visual Culture

Beginning in the 1920s, wire photography services used a technology similar to a fax machine to send...