Selected Essays and Reviews

JACOB RIIS

  • “The Jacob A. Riis Collection: Photographs for Books and Lantern Slides,” Ludwig Vogl-Bienek and Richard Crangle, eds. Screen Culture and the Social Question 1880-1914, John Libbey Publishing Ltd., London, 2014, 83-96

  • “Photography Changes Our Awareness of Poverty,” Marvin Heiferman, ed., Photography Changes Everything, Aperture Foundation, New York, 2012, 105-107

  • Tom Buk-Swienty, The Other Half, The Life of Jacob Riis and the World of Immigrant America, review Journal of American History, Sept 2009, 578

  • “Jacob Riis, ‘How the Other Half Lives,’” Ganz Unten, Die Entdeckung des Elends, Wien, Berlin, London, Paris, New York, Wien Museum, 2007, 65-72

  • “Photography,” David Levinson, ed., Encyclopedia of Homelessness, Berkshire Publishing Group, Sage Publications, London, 2004, 447-451

  • Lewis Hines’ New York City ‘Newsies,’” New-York Journal of American History, Fall 2003, 94-106

  • “The Masked Image, “The Photographs of Jacob Riis Regain Their Original Look,” Humanities, May/June 1998, 16-21

  • “What Are the Photographs of Jacob Riis?” Culturefront, Fall 1994, 28-38

PICTORIALISM INTO MODERNISM

  • “Becoming Modern,” Photography at MoMA: 1840-1920, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2017, 324-365 

  • “The Clarence H. White School of Photography,” Object: Photo, The Thomas Walther Collection, Museum of Modern Art, 2014 moma.org/interactives/objectphoto

  •  “Paul Strand’s Not-So-Revolutionary Photographs of 1916,” “A Fine Regard: Essays in Honor of Kirk Varnedoe, Patricia C. Berman and Gertje R. Utley, eds., Ashgate Press, Aldershot, England, 2007, 154-165

  • “Commercial Break,” review Patricia Johnston, Real Fantasies, Edward Steichen’s Advertising Photography, Afterimage, May/June 1999, 19

  • Anton Bruehl, Howard Greenberg Gallery, 1998

  • Sherril Schell: Photographs of New York, 1930, Phillips New York, 1998

  • Wynn Richards, Howard Greenberg Gallery, 1989

  • “Clarence H. White Reconsidered: An Alternative to the Modernist Aesthetic of Straight Photography,” Studies in Visual Communication, Fall 1983, 24-44

MID-CENTURY NEW YORK

  • “The Trials & Triumphs of Public Art,” New York Archives, Fall 2009, 18-23

  • “Esther Bubley: Making Something Out of What Appears to be Nothing,” Breaking the Frame: Pioneering Women in Photojournalism, Carol McCusker, ed., Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, 2006, 131-164

  • “New York New York: Fifty Years of Photography,” New York New York, Fifty Years of Art, Architecture, Cinema, Performance, Photography and Video, Germano Celant and Lisa Dennison, eds., Grimaldi Forum, Monaco, 2006, 263-266 

  • Arthur Leipzig, A Retrospective, C.W. Post/Long Island University, 1989

CONTEMPORARY NEW YORK

  • Jeongmee Yoon, The Pink & Blue Project, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Berlin, 2019

  • Gina LeVay, Sandhogs, Powerhouse Books, Brooklyn, 2009

  • “Thomas Holton: The Lams of Ludlow Street,” Aperture, Spring 2007, 36-41

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