Author's Corner
Sandra Križić Roban and Ana Šverko | Watching, Waiting
Watching and waiting have, in multiple ways, been intrinsic to photography since its inception, regardless of technological advancements.
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Lesly Deschler Canossi and Zoraida Lopez-Diago | Black Matrilineage, Photography, and Representation
The Diamond Open Access publication Black Matrilineage, Photography, and Representation: Another Way of Knowing emerges from the project Women Picturing Revolution. The editors and co-funders of the project, Lesly Deschler Canossi and Zoraida Lopez-Diago, explain more about the project and the book in this blog post.
Olga Smith | Contemporary Photography in France
In Contemporary Photography in France author Olga Smith explores the history of photography in France from the 1970s to the present day and sets photographic practices in contemporary art, documentary, photojournalism, and fashion in dialogue with French philosophy.
Gabriella Nugent | Colonial Legacies
In Colonial Legacies, Gabriella Nugent examines a generation of contemporary artists born or based in the Congo whose lens-based art attends to the afterlives and mutations of Belgian colonialism in postcolonial Congo. Nugent analyses artworks, and demonstrates how their practices create a new type of visual record for the future. “I have always thought that the concerns addressed by the artists in my book were pressing, but it has been interesting to see them pushed to the forefront of art history, as well as museums and other institutions,” she states.
Alexandra Moschovi | A Gust of Photo-Philia
In her book A Gust of Photo-Philia Alexandra Moschovi tells the story of photography’s accommodation in and as contemporary art in the art museum.
Simon Dell | The Portrait and the Colonial Imaginary
"It was very difficult to find a way of writing about the different perspectives of France and Africa, of Africans in France and the French in A...
Jorge Ribalta | Renaissance. Scenes of Industrial Reconversion in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais Coalfield
Photo by Anna Oswaldo Cruz Lehner
"Industrial environments can provide the intense physical/emotional experience of cathedrals."
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