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Publications

Darshana Sreedhar Mini, Rated A: Soft-Porn Cinema and Mediations of Desire in India

Vanessa Schwartz, Jet Age Aesthetic: The Glamour of Media in Motion (Yale University Press, 2020)

Nadya Bair, The Decisive Network: Magnum Photos and the Postwar Image Market

Daniela Bleichmar and Vanessa Schwartz, “Visual History: The Past in Pictures”

K. L. H. Wells, Weaving Modernism Postwar Tapestry Between Paris and New York

Matthew Fox-Amato, Exposing Slavery: Photography, Human Bondage, and the Birth of Modern Visual Politics in America

Tara McPherson, Feminist in a Software Lab: Difference + Design

Susanna Berger, The Art of Philosophy: Visual Thinking in Europe from the Late Renaissance to the Early Enlightenment

Daniela Bleichmar, Visual Voyages: Images of Latin American Nature from Columbus to Darwin

Kate Flint, Flash!: Photography, Writing, and Surprising Illumination

Julián Daniel Gutiérrez-Albilla, Aesthetics, Ethics and Trauma in the Cinema of Pedro Almodóvar

Steve Ross, Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America

Laura Kalba, Color in the Age of Impressionism: Commerce, Technology, and Art

Jason Hill, Artist as Reporter: Weegee, Ad Reinhardt, and the PM News Picture

Ryan Linkof, Public Images: Celebrity, Photojournalism, and the Making of the Tabloid Press

Suzanne Hudson, Agnes Martin: Night Sea (The MIT Press, 2016)

Suzanne Hudson, Painting Now (Thames & Hudson, 2015)

Jason Hill & Vanessa Schwartz, Getting the Picture: The Visual Culture of the News(Bloomsbury, 2015)

Vittoria Di Palma, Wasteland: A History (Yale University Press, 2014)

David Albertson, Mathematical Theologies: Nicolas of Cusa and the Legacy of Thierry of Chartes (Oxford University Press, 2014)

Amy Ogata, Designing the Creative Child: Playthings and Places in Midcentury America (University of Minnesota Press, 2013)

Laura Serna, Making Cinelandia: American Films and Mexican Film Culture Before the Golden Age (Duke University Press, 2014)

Christian Delage, Thierry Gervais, and Vanessa R. Schwartz, eds., “Caught in the Act: The History of Photojournalism” Etudes Photographiques (No. 26, November 2011)

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