DEMOCRATIC LENS CONTENT OVERVIEW
View the suggested readings and resources found within The Democratic Lens discussion series.
ESSAYS
• What AI can Teach Us About Interpreting Photos – Kim Beil, PhD
• The Persistent Demand for Misinformation & Fake Images – Holly Stuart Hughes
• Imaging as Activism – Lucy R. Lippard
• What Can’t Be Unseen” Photography & Activism – Kymberly Pinder, PhD
• Photographic Portraits as Social Capital & Social Theft – Laura Wexler, PhD
INTERVIEWS
• So Many Cameras, So Many Issues – Kim Beil, PhD
• On Artists Call, Arts Activism and Solidarity – Erina Duganne
• Images of Traumatic Histories – Kymberly Pinder, PhD
• How Civil Rights Photos Have Been Used and Remembered – Leigh Raiford, PhD
• Race, Citizenship, and Self Image in 19th Century American Photography – Shawn Michelle Smith, PhD
• Dorothea Lange: Documenting the Depression, Migration, and Forced Relocation – Dyanna Taylor
• Lewis Hine’s Impact on Labor, Immigration, and PhotoJournalism – Leslie Ureña, PhD
• Women, Domestic Images, and Imperial Ambitions – Laura Wexler, PhD
• On War Photography, and Empathy – Anne Wilkes Tucker
• Troubling NDN Pictures: Challenging the Historic Representation of Indigenous People – Will Wilson
LECTURES
• Photography, Ecology, Democracy – Makeda Best, PhD
• How We Teach the Truth: Vision & Justice – Sarah Elizabeth Lewis, PhD
• Imaging as Activism – Lucy R. Lippard
• What Can’t Be Unseen” Photography & Activism – Kymberly Pinder, PhD
• “Deep Into What I’m Seeing”: Photography & The Making & Unmaking of Black Citizenship – Leigh Raiford, PhD
• War/Photography: Empathy As A Perspective – Anne Wilkes Tucker
• Photography & Restitution: The Civil Potential of the Image – Laura Wexler, PhD