Another fine book by Wendy Kozol. “Against the fabric of suffering that unfolds around more spectacular injuries and deaths, The War In-Between studies visual depictions of banal, routine, or inscrutable aspects of militarized violence. Spaces of the in-between are both broader and much less visible than battlefields, even though struggles for survival arise out of the same conditions of structural violence. Visual artifacts includ­ing photographs, video, data visualizations, fabric art, and craft projects provide different vantage points on the quotidian impacts of militarism, whether it is ..read more

Just out from Jane Tormey, co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Photography.  Provides an overview of photographic theory and artistry to emphasize the value of the medium for political advocacy, Available here and here ..read more

Chris Pinney shepherds yet another compelling project that blends critical and ethnographic methods to explore how photography is an essential technology for citizenship, belonging, solidarity, and the crucial resource of the political imagination. “Ambitious in its theoretical and ethnographic reach, this vital volume robustly explores the unruly political potentialities of photography while laying out multiple directions for a future anthropology of photography. Citizens of Photography is a landmark book.” — Karen Strassler, author of Demanding Images: Democracy, Mediation, a ..read more

Available in hardback and as an open source pdf. The Visual Memory of Protest is a fine book with a clear and compelling sense of purpose. The book has three converging foci: the first is the memory of activism, that is, the collective memory of protest events; the second is memory in activism, that is, how the memory of previous protests “informs later protest cycles”; the third is memory activism, “where activism is itself directed towards changing collective memory and the priorities in public commemoration” (14). These orientations can overlap, but the distinction is useful in analyzing a ..read more

I’m happy to see another book by Thy Phu. Photography, war, dispersed and diasporic communities, and memory.  Available here and here ..read more

Superb interpretations of a wide range of images. You can read more about it here. The post David Campany On Photographs appeared first on NO CAPTION NEEDED ..read more

A curatorial and critical achievement that expands the art world and the public culture on behalf of a grounded, relational, and humane political imagination capable of standing up to the prison industrial complex. Publisher’s information and many related links are here. The post Nicole Fleetwood on Marking Time appeared first on NO CAPTION NEEDED ..read more

How to say goodbye to the 20th century discourse on photography: Highly recommended. Available at Stanford University Press and Amazon. The post Hagi Kenaan on Photography and its Shadow appeared first on NO CAPTION NEEDED ..read more

This small volume is a thoughtful meditation on how photography presents deep problems, and resources, for thinking about our relationships with images, the world, and each other. Although keenly attuned to the tradition of epistemological and political skepticism in the discourse on photography, that attitude is complicated by another, much more difficult commitment: love. Highly recommended. Available at Amazon and David Zwirner Books. The post David Levi Strauss on Photography and Belief appeared first on NO CAPTION NEEDED ..read more

This magnificent volume is a collaboration of the Princeton University Art Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Yale University Press. From the Great Depression to the Vietnam War, the vast majority of the photographs printed and consumed in the United States appeared on the pages of illustrated magazines. Offering an in-depth look at the photography featured in Life magazine throughout its weekly run from 1936 to 1972, this volume examines how the magazine’s use of images fundamentally shaped the modern idea of photography in the United States. . . . Drawing on unprecedente ..read more