Kim Sichel
Biographic Data
| ID | 1201806 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kim Sichel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kim |
| FAMILY NAME | Sichel |
| SIGNATURE | SICHEL K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kim Sichel is a photographic historian who teaches at Boston University, and writes about twentieth-century American and European documentary and art photography. |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Dayanita Singh's World of Books
This review essay examines three recent photobooks by Dayanita Singh: Let's See, Book Building, and Dancing with My Camera, which show the evolution and singularity of her work. Singh's main medium is an essential form of photographic communication: the photographic book. As a documenter, a photographic book artist, and a conceptual artist, she and her work have transformed and conflated our definitions of what it takes to construct a book, an ar…
The Portrait and the Colonial Imaginary
Picturing Class
June 01 2017 Picturing Class: Lewis W. Hine Photographs Child Labor in New England Picturing Class: Lewis W. Hine Photographs Child Labor in New England. By RobertMacieski. (Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2015. Pp. 312. $95.00 cloth; $29.95 paper.) Kim Sichel Kim Sichel Kim Sichel is a photographic historian who teaches at Boston University, and writes about twentieth-century American and European documentary and art photography.…
Paris vu par André Kertész
From the mid-1920s onwards, photographic books about Paris began to change.1 These albums, no longer organized as topographic records of the great monuments of Paris, reflect a newly conceived city. Like the short photo-essays in the popular illustrated magazines Vu, Voilà, and Variétés, books like Paris vu par André Kertész present Paris as a collection of building fragments and personally observed individuals. Despite their seeming randomness, …
Symbols of Ideal Life
Journal Article Symbols of Ideal Life: Social Documentary Photography in America, 1890–1950. By Maren Stange. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989. xviii + 190 pp. $34.50.) Get access Kim Sichel Kim Sichel Boston University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 2, September 1990, Page 689, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079269 Published: 01 September 1990
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Symbols of Ideal Life
Journal Article Symbols of Ideal Life: Social Documentary Photography in America, 1890–1950. By Maren Stange. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989. xviii + 190 pp. $34.50.) Get access Kim Sichel Kim Sichel Boston University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 2, September 1990, Page 689, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079269 Published: 01 September 1990
Paris vu par André Kertész
From the mid-1920s onwards, photographic books about Paris began to change.1 These albums, no longer organized as topographic records of the great monuments of Paris, reflect a newly conceived city. Like the short photo-essays in the popular illustrated magazines Vu, Voilà, and Variétés, books like Paris vu par André Kertész present Paris as a collection of building fragments and personally observed individuals. Despite their seeming randomness, …
Picturing Class
June 01 2017 Picturing Class: Lewis W. Hine Photographs Child Labor in New England Picturing Class: Lewis W. Hine Photographs Child Labor in New England. By RobertMacieski. (Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2015. Pp. 312. $95.00 cloth; $29.95 paper.) Kim Sichel Kim Sichel Kim Sichel is a photographic historian who teaches at Boston University, and writes about twentieth-century American and European documentary and art photography.…
The Portrait and the Colonial Imaginary
Dayanita Singh's World of Books
This review essay examines three recent photobooks by Dayanita Singh: Let's See, Book Building, and Dancing with My Camera, which show the evolution and singularity of her work. Singh's main medium is an essential form of photographic communication: the photographic book. As a documenter, a photographic book artist, and a conceptual artist, she and her work have transformed and conflated our definitions of what it takes to construct a book, an ar…
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