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

• 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

• 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