Media Interviews and Opinions
The New York Times: The Mug Shot, a Crime Story Staple, Is Dropped by Some Newsrooms and Police
I was interviewed by The New York Times about a trend among some police departments and news outlets to end the practice of releasing and publicizing mug shots of people accused of crimes, absent an immediate public safety reason to do so. I discussed how these mug shots have been Read more…
Media Interviews and Opinions
Artnet News: How the National Archives’ Notorious Alteration of a Women’s March Photo is Part of a Long American Tradition
In this opinion piece co-authored with Peter Rutland, I reflect on the National Archives’ censoring of the messages on protest signs in a photo taken at the Women’s March in January 2017. This action was swiftly and universally condemned by professional historians and curators. It both transpired in our era Read more…
Art, Scientific Discovery, and Visual Imagination
“Magical Attractions” Lantern Slide Lectures at British Association for the Advancement of Science Annual Meetings, ca. 1850-1920,” in The Magic Lantern at Work: Connecting, Witnessing, Experiencing and Persuading, ed. Martyn Jolly and Elisa de Courcy (New York: Routledge Studies in Cultural History, 2020), pp. 67-87.
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