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...

Erin Nolan, Emily Voelker

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Reading Across American and Ottoman Archives: Diplomacy and Photography in the Nineteenth...

Album exchanges between American and Ottoman powers (c.1880-1910) reveal a networked history of...

Clara Masnatta

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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

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Was “American” Photography a European Invention?

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

Jürg Schneider

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Circulating West-African Photographs in the Atlantic Visualscape

In the second half of the 19th century, photographs circulated widely in a triangular region...

Jan Baetens

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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...

Jonathan Dentler

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Wire photography and transatlantic visual culture

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

Carolin Görgen

en

Vienna to San Francisco via Chicago: Camera Club Exchanges in the 1890s

Elitist organizations such as the Linked Ring Brotherhood and the Photo-Secession were not the only...

Erin Nolan, Aimée Bessire

en

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...

Clara Bouveresse

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Photographic agencies

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