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Photo: Greyhound Bus Terminal, 33rd & 34th Streets between 7th & 8th Avenues, Manhattan by Berenice Abbot, 1936, courtesy of the New York Public Library.

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New Books

Siobhan Angus, Camera Geologica: An Elemental History of Photography (Duke, 2024)

Giulia Paoletti, Portrait and Place: Photography in Senegal, 1840-1960 (Princeton, 2024)

Julia Brown et al, eds. Women photographers and Mexican Modernity (Routledge, 2024)

New Articles

Karen M. Fraser, "From Print to Photograph, Stage to Page, and East to West" (Autumn 2023)

C. Dahlquist and P. Kinderman, "'Picture imperfect': The Motives and Uses of Patient Photography in the Asylum" (June 2023)

Emily Brady, "'Shutterbug?': Black Women Photographers and the Politics of Self-Representation" (Spring 2023)

New Exhibitions

This Light of Ours: Activist Photographers of the Civil Rights Movement (L.A. through Feb. 25)

Etched by Light: Photogravures from the Collection, 1840-1940 (D.C. through Feb. 4)

Proof: Maxime Du Camp’s Photographs of the Eastern Mediterranean and North Africa (NYC through Jan. 21)

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