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SOURCE: The Conversation
4/7/2022

"Is It Cake?" is Brain Candy for Pandemic-Weary, but also Part of Long History of Visual Illusion

by Maggie Cao

"At a time when we often don’t know if what we encounter on our screens can be trusted, it feels good to alleviate those anxieties with a show in which the only consequence of being fooled is cutting into a shoe that we assumed was a cake."

SOURCE: Mother Jones
6/10/2021

How the George Floyd Uprising Was Framed for White Eyes

Some of the most iconic news photographs of the Civil Rights Movement told a particular story to white liberals – that Black protesters were passive victims needing their help, instead of actively fighting for freedom. Those photos today help define the mainstream limits of "acceptable" protest.

SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
12/1/2020

The Struggle to Document COVID-19 for Future Generations

by Pamela Ballinger

Images of suffering have been powerful spurs to humanitarian action in history, but the process has the potential to reinforce messages of fault, blame, and separation. Assembling a visual archive of the age of COVID must avoid those traps to be useful in the future.

SOURCE: Society for U.S. Intellectual History
9/9/2020

The Interdisciplinarity and Influence of Alan Trachtenberg

by Jennifer Giuliano and Lauren Tilton

"The need to interrogate, understand, and even disrupt how we see images is a part of Trachtenberg’s enduring legacy that becomes more important as researchers are distanced from physical archives." The work of Alan Trachtenberg in developing historical methodologies for understanding images is crucial for historians' ability to speak to current affairs.

SOURCE: Yale News
8/18/2020

Alan Trachtenberg, Pioneered New Ways of Understanding American Culture

Trachtenberg is best known as one of the most distinguished and authoritative interpreters of what photographers have shown about history through the camera lens.