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Thérèse Bonney, the Bonney Service and the Business of Syndicated Photography, 1922–45 by Riley, Caroline M.

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Cruising Europe in World War II: Epistemological Challenges of German Vernacular Trophy Photography by Mailänder, Elissa

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Demanding Images and Memories of Colonial Violence in Tanzania by Rushohora, Nancy

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The Revolution Will (Not?) Be Colourised: Photographs from the Indonesian National Revolution (1945–49) on Social Media by Protschky, Susie

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American Arcadia? The Shift of the Homoerotic Gaze in Herbert List’s Work by Pfaller Schmid, Matthias Johannes

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An African Looks at America: Picturing Racial Integration for Africa, 1956-68 by Newbury, Darren

“…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…”
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Contributors by Patrizia Di Bello

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The Mechanical against Objectivity: Industrialism and Inoperativity in Eadweard Muybridge's Animal Locomotion (1887) by Smiley, Michelle

“…Throughout his 1887 photographic atlas, Animal Locomotion, the photographer Eadweard Muybridge uses the serial, instantaneous imagery of chronophotography - a…”
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Enfolding History: Identities, Performances and Contexts in an Early Ethnographic Album from Natal, South Africa by Morton, Christopher

“…The histories of anthropology and photography are closely entwined, and nowhere more so than in southern Africa, where new European settler colonies emerged at…”
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Contributors by Di Bello, Patrizia

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Contributors by Di Bello, Patrizia

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The 'Chok' of Image 'Constellations in Themselves': Reframing Walter Benjamin's 'Little History of Photography' (1931) by Hurm, Gerd

“…This article revisits some of the principal documents and guiding assumptions that have shaped the debate about the significance of Walter Benjamin's landmark…”
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Photography and Early Motor Touring in Britain by Dominici, Sara

“…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,…”
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Deborah Willis with Allison Pappas and Natalie Zelt: Excerpt from Framing the Field Interview Transcript, 8-9 June 2022

“…Deborah Willis (born 1948, Philadelphia, PA) served as the Curator of the Photographs and Prints Division at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture…”
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Framing the Field: An Intergenerational Conversation about the Making of Photography in US Museums by Pappas, Allison, Zelt, Natalie

“…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…”
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Anne Wilkes Tucker with Allison Pappas and Natalie Zelt: Excerpt from Framing the Field Interview Transcript, 4-6 April 2022

“…Anne Wilkes Tucker (born 1945, Baton Rouge, LA) served as the founding Gus and Lyndall Wortham Curator of Photographs at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston…”
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After the Flood: Notes on Photography and the Archive by Pullagura, Anni A.

“…The often-theorised relationship between the photograph as a democratic object and medium for knowledge production and the archive continues to influence the…”
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A Lexicon for Positioning 'The Idea Photography' in Our Nation's Art Museum by Sands, Audrey

“…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…”
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'The thing will be alive': Nancy Newhall and a Vision for Photography by Palmer Albers, Kate

“…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…”
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Learning to Collect Photographs in the 1970s by Kalkstein, Molly

“…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…”
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