> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://hyperallergic.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Lisette Model’s Silenced Jazz Pictures - URL: https://hyperallergic.com/lisette-models-silenced-jazz-pictures/ - Published: 2026-03-09T20:30:48.000Z - Updated: 2026-03-09T20:30:48.000Z - Description: The story of Lisette Model and other photographers who shaped the way we historicize social movements today. - Author: Lakshmi Rivera Amin - Tags: Books Newsletter, Newsletter International Women’s Day may have officially come and gone, but the real fight continues the other 364 days of the year. The book is one front, not least because of the systematic exclusion of women from art historical narratives and institutions. This week, Julia Curl considers a book that resurfaces the timely story of Austrian-American photographer Lisette Model, who was targeted by the FBI during the Red Scare, like so many other leftist Jewish refugees. That and much more for your reading list below. *— Lakshmi Rivera Amin, Associate Editor* --- ## From Our Critics [![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/2026/03/jazz_pictures.jpg)](https://hyperallergic.com/the-jazz-pictures-the-fbi-silenced/) ### [The Jazz Pictures the FBI Silenced](https://hyperallergic.com/the-jazz-pictures-the-fbi-silenced/) Fearing for her safety, Lisette Model buried her photos of artists like Billie Holiday and Louis Armstrong, but a new book reveals them to the world. | Julia Curl *Lisette Model: The Jazz Pictures* (2025), with photographs by Model and essays by Audrey Sands, Langston Hughes, and others --- SPONSORED [![CTA Image](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/2026/03/2026-AUPHyperallergicAd.png)](https://www.aup.edu/creative-writing-summer?ref=hyperallergic.com) ****Summer Creative Writing Institute at the American University of Paris** Let Paris inspire you this summer and come join us at AUP’s Summer Creative Writing Institute. With workshops on poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, students can work deeply on issues of craft, all while enjoying the City of Light. [Learn more ](https://www.aup.edu/creative-writing-summer?ref=hyperallergic.com) --- ## Women’s Day Every Day [![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/2026/03/higgie.jpg)](https://hyperallergic.com/women-and-spiritualism-in-art-the-other-side-jennifer-higgie/) ### [Women and Spiritualism in Art](https://hyperallergic.com/women-and-spiritualism-in-art-the-other-side-jennifer-higgie/) In *The Other Side*, Jennifer Higgie pays tribute to celebrated and lesser-known women artists whose work intersected with the occult. | AX Mina *The Other Side: A Story of Women in Art and the Spirit World* (2024) by Jennifer Higgie [![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/2026/03/comrade-sisters-cover.jpg)](https://hyperallergic.com/remembering-the-women-of-the-black-panther-party/) ### [Remembering the Women of the Black Panther Party](https://hyperallergic.com/remembering-the-women-of-the-black-panther-party/) *Comrade Sisters* centers photographs and personal accounts of the women who made up over two-thirds of the party. | Taylor Michael *Comrade Sisters: Women of the Black Panther Party* (2022), with photographs by Stephen Shames and text by Ericka Huggins --- ## More From the Archive [![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/2026/03/Untitled-2.jpg)](https://hyperallergic.com/doris-derbys-searing-intimate-photos-of-the-civil-rights-movement/) ### [Doris Derby’s Searing, Intimate Photos of the Civil Rights Movement](https://hyperallergic.com/doris-derbys-searing-intimate-photos-of-the-civil-rights-movement/) A book presents more than 110 pictures from Derby’s archive, offering a rich panorama of the key people and places behind the movement. | Lauren Moya Ford *A Civil Rights Journey* (2021) by Doris Derby [![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/2026/03/true-america.jpg)](https://hyperallergic.com/ernest-cole-anti-apartheid-photographer-who-was-stranded-in-america/) ### [The Anti-Apartheid Photographer Who Was Stranded in America](https://hyperallergic.com/ernest-cole-anti-apartheid-photographer-who-was-stranded-in-america/) Ernest Cole’s life story is an anti-colonialism epic, Cold War thriller, and a tragedy. | John Edwin Mason *Ernest Cole: The True America* (2024) by James Sanders, Leslie M. Wilson, and Raoul Peck