Photography

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 978-0-8229-4623-6. Florence Grant, Ludmilla Jordanova, eds. Writing Visual Histories. Writing History Series.

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

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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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

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

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

David P. Colley. Seeing the War: The Stories behind the Famous Photographs from World War II. Lebanon: ForeEdge, 2015. Illustrations. 192 pp. $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-61168-726-2.

Reviewed by Mark Bernhardt (Jackson State University) Published on H-War (May, 2016) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey

Jonathan M. Reynolds. Allegories of Time and Space: Japanese Identity in Photography and Architecture. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2015. 352 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8248-3924-6.

Reviewed by Francis Chia-Hui Lin (Taylor's University) Published on H-Nationalism (September, 2016) Commissioned by Sarah Mak

An Ethnographic Surrogate for Nationalism

Cara A. Finnegan. Making Photography Matter: A Viewer's History from the Civil War to the Great Depression. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2015. Illustrations. 256 pp. $50.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-252-03926-3.

Reviewed by Sally Webster Published on H-SHGAPE (November, 2015) Commissioned by K. Stephen Prince

The Rhetoric of Photography

Alexander Nemerov. Wartime Kiss: Visions of the Moment in the 1940s. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013. Illustrations. 175 pp. $22.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-691-14578-5.

Reviewed by Stephen Williams Published on H-War (July, 2013) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey