Photography: A Critical Introduction [Review]

Photography: A Critical Introduction is an academic game of-catch up in the history of photographic development, and especially the debates around those developments. It was a good, exhausting read. The book, which is in its fifth edition, is on the reading list for the School of Visual Arts MFA. That means its heady and theoretical and …

Marriage, A History [Review]

Marriage, A History by Stephanie Coontz is not a book about wedding ceremonies. But, I found the book fascinating nonetheless. Since reading it, Fox News seem sillier than ever. It also challenged assumptions I didn’t know I have about the complementary natures of people rather than men and women. In the years leading up to writing …