Isolde Brielmaier’s book I Am Sparkling illustrates how Parekh’s studio became a place for sitters to assert their agency in a changing world.
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Photo Book Retells the History of Hysteria
Laura Larson’s City of Incurable Women draws from archival materials to speculate on the lives of women who were famously hospitalized for hysteria throughout history.
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Vintage Cameras and the Imperfect Photographs They Take
David Ellwand has collected over 100 vintage cameras and published the photographs he’s taken with them in RetroPhoto: An Obsession.
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The First 100 Years of Camera Advertising
Ever since the invention of photography, we’ve been deeply fascinated by cameras and the images they produce.
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Darkroom Developer Trays as Portraits of the Artists
Disposable and deteriorated, the developer trays used by photographers are usually discarded.
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20 of the First Photographs of Things, from People to Hoaxes to the Moon
We’ve compiled a list of photographic firsts from the beginnings of photography all to way to the newest landmarks in capturing visually things which were previously imperceptible to our human eyes.
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The Rise and Fall of Polaroid
Instant: The Story of Polaroid, an entertaining book by the New York-based writer Christopher Bonanos, follows the long and twisting career of Edwin Land and his brainchild corporation, Polaroid.