Writings on photography and visual culture


Review of Laurence Salzmann’s Écheleganas:  A Life Left Behind, February 2012

Review of “Ralph Gibson:  Quartets,” High Museum of Art, Atlanta, November 2011

Review of Sally Mann at Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, September 2011

Review of Bernard Aptekar at Galicia Jewish Museum, Kraków, May 2011

Review-essay on “Henri Cartier-Bresson:  The Modern Century,” High Museum of Art, Atlanta, February 2011

Review of Michael David Murphy at Spruill Gallery, Atlanta, October 2010

Review of Chris Verene at Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, October 2010

Review of Angela West and Roger Ballen at Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, October 2010


On art and postmemory:  Camps and Abstraction 1

On art and postmemory:  Camps and Abstraction 2

On art and postmemory:  Camps and Abstraction 3

On art and postmemory:  Camps and Abstraction 4

On art and postmemory:  Camps and Abstraction 5

On art and postmemory:  Camps and Abstraction 6

Interrogating memory:  Kazimierz, Kraków, Poland

Interrogating memory:  Leon Pawąd, Bochnia, Poland

Interrogating memory:  Częstochowa, Poland

Interrogating memory:  What to do in a death camp?


Interrogating place:  Two sites in Philadelphia

Interrogating place:  African American cemetery, Oxford, Georgia

Interrogating place:  1300 block of Chestnut Street, Philadelphia

Interrogating place:  Gilbert Stuart’s Germantown, Philadelphia

Interrogating place:  From a forgotten location in Philadelphia


The Prismatic Fragment:  Looking into Alfred Stieglitz’s The Steerage

Foreword to Richard Gordon’s American Surveillance:  Someone to Watch Over Me

“Concerning Chinatown,” with Anthony W. Lee, from A Chinatown Document

“Picturing Difference:  Documentary Practices and San Francisco’s Chinatown,” from A Chinatown Document

“Reading Walker Evans”

“David Goldblatt and the Image of South Africa”

“War Photography in the Twentieth Century:  The Critical Questions”

“The Shock of the Posthumous:  Vladimir Syomin's Caucasus Project (Reflections on Documentary Practices and Soviet History)”

“Teaching Photography as Art”

“Rethinking the Bible and the Image”




Writings on Indian photography, literature and political economy


“Of Cheroots and Current Coins:  Reconsidering the Photography of Colonial India”

"In the Heat of Fratricide:  The Literature of India’s Partition Burning Freshly"

"M. U. Memon's An Epic Unwritten:  A Review"

“Alok Bhalla’s Stories on the Partition of India, A Review Essay”

“The Pervious Lover and Mir—an Open Essay”

“Intizar Husain’s Leaves:  A Review”

“Working against the Grain:  The Emerging Telugu Countryside”

“Interlinkage in Indian Agriculture:  Some Findings and Comments”




Poems


A Note on Translation

Poems of Celan

Poems of Ghalib

Poems of Nasrul

Poems of Lorca

Poems of Glatshteyn

Poems of Sowol

Poems of Miłosz

Poems of Rilke

Tehilim

Various poems

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