The Streets of Mogadishu
March 8, 2024
N. W. Collins— “Every American has seen the shocking images from Somalia,” President George H. W. Bush commenced the live address from the Oval Office.1 Announcing the new mission to… READ MORE
Tag: photography
Ep. 121—The 1955 Photographs of Robert Frank and Todd Webb
October 12, 2023
This episode of the Yale University Press Podcast features a conversation with Lisa Volpe, curator of photography at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, about the book and exhibition America… READ MORE
A Window Suddenly Opens
September 21, 2023
Betsy Johnson— When concept enters Chinese photography, it is as if a window suddenly opens in a room that has been sealed for years. We can now breathe comfortably, and… READ MORE
Aleksandr Rodchenko’s “shadow oeuvre”
February 27, 2023
Aglaya K. Glebova — What should the modern world look like? The Soviet artist Aleksandr Rodchenko, like many of his avant-garde comrades both east and west of Moscow, had strong… READ MORE
Italy in the British Imagination
November 9, 2022
Beth Saunders— In their introduction to The Idea of Italy: Photography and the British Imagination, 1840–1890, editors Antonella Pelizzari and Scott Wilcox explain that the very idea of Italy was,… READ MORE
Ep. 92 – Laura Wilson on her new book, The Writers: Portraits
October 20, 2022
In this episode of the Yale University Press podcast, we talk to acclaimed photographer Laura Wilson about her new book, The Writers: Portraits. The book features photographic portraits of 38… READ MORE
Photography and Friendship: Georgia O’Keeffe and Todd Webb
November 15, 2021
By Lisa Volpe and Betsy Evans Hunt Yale University Press and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, are very pleased to publish the first book devoted to the photographic works… READ MORE
“Napalm Girl”
September 20, 2021
Tarleton Gillespie— Titled The Terror of War but more commonly known as “Napalm Girl,” the 1972 Pulitzer Prize–winning photo by Associated Press photographer Nick Ut is perhaps the most indelible… READ MORE
Travel, Photography, and the (Familiar) New
June 15, 2021
Monica Bravo– After a long period of staying at home, social distancing, and masking up, we are told—at last—that the world is opening up. Breathing a collective sigh of relief… READ MORE
Metro Pictures, Gallery of the Pictures Generation, Calls it Quits
May 17, 2021
Andy Grundberg– The announcement that Metro Pictures will close its gallery in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York at the end of the year emphatically signals – if any emphasis… READ MORE
Between Memory and History