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Photography and Protest

Deborah Willis, Chair of Photography & Imaging at Tisch New York University and co-editor of 'Women and Migration', shares her powerful reflections about photography, history and protest in the context of the BLM demonstration taking place all around the world.

Camera Memoria: Some Thoughts Initiated by Lionel Gossman’s Thomas Annan of Glasgow

Thomas Annan is a fascinating study, both in the particular case of Lionel Gossman’s fine monograph on this photographer [http://www.openbookpublishers.com/product/339/thomas-annan-of-glasgow--pioneer-of-the-documentary-photograph] (I nearly wrote ‘artist’) and in the general sense of an individual experimenting with a dynamic new technology. The tensions in this first

How I Came Home

For most of my professional career I was a teacher of French literature and much of my published work has been in that field. But I have always been a wanderer and, since my retirement in 1999, perhaps a rather reckless one. Sometimes I look back to see if I

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