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LAST CALL FOR APPLICATIONS [APPLY TODAY]: Oral History Summer School is back in session with 2 upcoming summer workshops! Applications are now open for our summer intensives. Come all ye documentarians, journalists, artists, media-makers, educators and those looking to learn new things in good company.

Author: 
John Osborne, Peter Smeaton
Reviewer: 
Katherine Mitchell

Mitchell on Osborne and Smeaton, 'Out of the Studio: The Photographic Innovations of Charles and John Smeaton at Home and Abroad'

John Osborne, Peter Smeaton. Out of the Studio: The Photographic Innovations of Charles and John Smeaton at Home and Abroad. McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation Studies in Art History Series. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022. Illustrations. 208 pp. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-228-01205-4

Author: 
Candace M. Keller
Reviewer: 
Diana Wylie

Wylie on Foster, 'The City as Photographic Text: Urban Documentary Photography of São Paulo' and Grant and Jordanova and eds., 'Writing Visual Histories' and Keller, 'Imaging Culture'

David William Foster. The City as Photographic Text: Urban Documentary Photography of São Paulo. Latinx and Latin American Profiles Series. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021. Illustrations. 248 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8229-4623-6Florence Grant, Ludmilla Jordanova, eds. Writing Visual Histories.

Author: 
Kerry Ross
Reviewer: 
Celio H. Barreto

Barreto on Ross, 'Photography for Everyone: The Cultural Lives of Cameras and Consumers in Early Twentieth-Century Japan'

Kerry Ross. Photography for Everyone: The Cultural Lives of Cameras and Consumers in Early Twentieth-Century Japan. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2015. Illustrations. 256 pp. $85.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8047-9423-7; $26.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8047-9564-7.

Reviewed by Celio H. Barreto (Royal Ontario Museum) Published on H-Japan (September, 2019) Commissioned by Martha Chaiklin

Author: 
Amy DeFalco Lippert
Reviewer: 
Jennifer M. Black

Black on Lippert, 'Consuming Identities: Visual Culture in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco'

Amy DeFalco Lippert. Consuming Identities: Visual Culture in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. 416 pp. $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-026897-8.

Reviewed by Jennifer M. Black (Misericordia University) Published on H-California (July, 2018) Commissioned by Khal Schneider

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Author: 
Luke Gartlan, Roberta Wue, eds.
Reviewer: 
Annemarie Sawkins

Sawkins on Gartlan and Wue, 'Portraiture and Early Studio Photography in China and Japan'

Luke Gartlan, Roberta Wue, eds. Portraiture and Early Studio Photography in China and Japan. London: Routledge, 2017. xv + 252 pp. $150.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4724-8438-3.

Reviewed by Annemarie Sawkins (Independent Scholar) Published on H-Japan (December, 2017) Commissioned by Martha Chaiklin

Author: 
Malcolm L. Fleming
Reviewer: 
Mark Montesclaros

Montesclaros on Fleming, 'From War to Peace in 1945 Germany: A GI's Experience'

Malcolm L. Fleming. From War to Peace in 1945 Germany: A GI's Experience. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2016. 200 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-253-01956-1.

Reviewed by Mark Montesclaros (U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Gordon Satellite Campus) Published on H-War (November, 2016) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey

Photo Op

Author: 
Stephen Sheehi
Reviewer: 
Tina Barouti

Barouti on Sheehi, 'The Arab Imago: A Social History of Portrait Photography, 1860-1910'

Stephen Sheehi. The Arab Imago: A Social History of Portrait Photography, 1860-1910. Princeton University Press, 2016. pages cm. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-691-15132-8.

Reviewed by Tina Barouti (Boston University) Published on H-AMCA (January, 2017) Commissioned by Jessica Gerschultz

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