Isabella Seniuta

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When booksellers created the early photography market

Photography catalogues attest to a growing transatlantic trade between 1939 and 1961, when booksellers...

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...

Carolin Görgen

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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...

Lara Cox

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Curating the Black Atlantic: An Overview of Exhibitions, 1989-2022

As the follow-on from a class project, this article presents a critical history of art exhibitions on...

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...

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...

Didier Aubert

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Modernist photography in Mexico: Modotti’s Letter

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