Concise, critical reviews of books, exhibitions, and projects in all areas and periods of art history and visual studies

Photography
Dissertations in Progress by Subject, 2022

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Brown, Renee, "Eye to Eye: Paul Vanderbilt and the Ordering of Photographic Knowledge, 1940-1970" (Boston University, K. Sichel, W. Moore)

Cesiro, Lauren, "The Body Is a Battleground: Intimate Communities in the Photographs of Robert Mapplethorpe, Nan Goldin and Sally Mann" (State University of New York, Binghamton, J. Tagg)

Dennett, Alexandra, "Paths of Modern Photography in Central Asia (1890–1940)" (Harvard University, M. Gough) 

Duffey, Ashley E. Kim, "(Re)visioning Kinship: Photographies of U.S.-Korean Adoption since 1953" (University of Minnesota, J. Marshall)

Hankel, Meg, "The Magic of 3-D: A History of Stereoscopy in Art and Visual Culture" (Bryn Mawr College, H. King, L. Saltzman)

Kugo, Kasumi, "The Theory and Practice of 'Eizo' in 1960s’ and 1970s’ Japan" (State University of New York, Binghamton, J. Tagg)

Levinsohn, James Michael, "Realism Beyond Redemption: Wolfgang Tillmans and Photographic Realism's Reinvention after Postmodernism" (University of Toronto, L. Kaplan)

Little, Myles, "Blackout: New York City, Photography and Darkness 1965-1985" (University of Southern California, V. Schwartz)

Lynch, Isabelle, "Artificial Light: Photography and Alternative Illumination c. 1860–1910 (University of Pennsylvania, K. Redrobe)

McCreight, Maura, "A Photographic Gendered History of The War Without a Name: France and Algeria (1954–62)" (Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), A. Pelizzari, E. Boone)

Mongelluzzo, Keri, "Bauhaus/Dream House: the Uncharted Surrealism of New Vision Photography" (Penn State University, N. Locke)

Slater, Hannah, "Reframing '3.11': Visualizing Disaster Landscapes after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, Tsunami, and Nuclear Disaster" (Ohio State University, N. Kunimoto)

Szupinska, Joanna, "Imagine a Nation: Zofia Rydet, Photography, and the End of Communism in Poland" (University of California, Los Angeles, G. Baker)