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