Rachel Somerstein
Biographic Data
| ID | 640113 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rachel Somerstein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rachel |
| FAMILY NAME | Somerstein |
| SIGNATURE | SOMERSTEIN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Syracuse University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
She’s just another pretty face: ” Sexual Harassment of Female Photographers
This article examines sexual and gendered harassment among professional female editorial photographers, whose experiences have largely been under-researched. It draws on semi-structured interviews conducted between 2017–2019 with 17 female professional editorial photographers, aged 23–82, who work in a variety of beats. Sixteen of 17 interviewees encountered sexual harassment, with gendered harassment the most common. Harassers included professor…
Stay back for your own safety: News photographers, interference, and the photographs they are prevented from taking
This exploratory, mixed-methods study uses semi-structured interviews to identify the sources of interference that news photographers encounter and then, using survey research, assesses these interferences’ prevalence. It also uses interview and survey data to identify photographs that photographers are prevented from taking and ones taken despite interference. In so doing, the study illuminates how the constraints photojournalists encounter shap…
Theater of war edited by Meredith Davenport
Picturing the past: The Berlin Wall at 25
Although the mass media is an important tool that audiences rely on to learn about the past, the relationship among journalism, history, and memory is still underdeveloped; visual collective memory, like visual studies in other subfields, has received even less attention than written and textual representations of collective memory. To address that gap, this article uses a qualitative content analysis to assess how 15 newspapers commemorated the …
Visualisation in the age of computerisation by Annamaria Carusi, Aud Sissel Hoel, Timothy Webmoor and Steve Woolgar
Visualisation in the age of computerisation by Annamaria Carusi, Aud Sissel Hoel, Timothy Webmoor and Steve Woolgar." Visual Studies, 31(4), pp. 368–369
Film Review: The Roosevelts: An Intimate History
Book Review| May 01 2015 Film Review: The Roosevelts: An Intimate History The Roosevelts: An Intimate History. Ken Burns, Director; Paul Barnes, Pam Tubridy Baucom, and Ken Burns, Producers; Geoffrey C. Ward, Writer; Peter Coyote, Narrator. Florentine Films. [840 minutes]. Rachel Somerstein Rachel Somerstein SUNY New Paltz Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (2015) 37 (2): 159–162. https:…
The Architecture of Pleasure: British Amusement Parks 1900-1939 by Josephine Kane
Josephine Kane’s intelligent, well-researched book started with a 1920 photograph that the author discovered in Margate Museum’s archives. The picture shows ‘smartly dressed’ people seated at table
Exhibiting patriotism: Creating and contesting interpretations of American historic sites
Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal
Image, Author, Failure, Chance: A Conversation with Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin
Research Article| May 01 2014 Image, Author, Failure, Chance: A Conversation with Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin Rachel Somerstein Rachel Somerstein RACHEL SOMERSTEIN is a PhD candidate in Mass Communications at Syracuse University, where she studies visual culture. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (2014) 41 (6): 14–19. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2014.41.6.14 Views Icon Views Article conten…
On liminality and loss: A decade of Israeli and Palestinian film
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSI wish to thank Richard Breyer, Laura Osur, and Joe Lingeman for their feedback and suggestions in preparing this review
Newspapers commemorate 11 September: A cross-cultural investigation
On 12 September 2001, as Hans-Peter Feldmann documented in his 2002 installation 9/12 Front Page, the front pages of newspapers from 151 countries showed similar photographs of a plane crashing into the World Trade Center. Despite this cross-cultural agreement on the most salient image at the time, in the decade since, distinct visual narratives of 9/11 have emerged in newspaper anniversary journalism. This paper examines how The New York Times (…
Continuous revolution: Making sense of Cultural Revolution culture
During China’s Cultural Revolution (1966–1976), artworks and artists endured rigorous restrictions. The Party banned traditional Chinese themes and styles as well as ‘capitalist’ art. It required t
We Can't Remember What We Haven't Seen: Media, War, and the Future of Collective Memory
Research Article| January 01 2013 We Can't Remember What We Haven't Seen: Media, War, and the Future of Collective Memory Rachel Somerstein Rachel Somerstein RACHEL SOMERSTEIN is a writer and a PhD student in mass communications at Syracuse University's Newhouse School of Public Communications. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (2013) 40 (4): 10–14. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2013.40.4.10 Views …
War Photography
Stay back for your own safety: News photographers, interference, and the photographs they are prevented from taking
This exploratory, mixed-methods study uses semi-structured interviews to identify the sources of interference that news photographers encounter and then, using survey research, assesses these interferences’ prevalence. It also uses interview and survey data to identify photographs that photographers are prevented from taking and ones taken despite interference. In so doing, the study illuminates how the constraints photojournalists encounter shap…
Newspapers commemorate 11 September: A cross-cultural investigation
On 12 September 2001, as Hans-Peter Feldmann documented in his 2002 installation 9/12 Front Page, the front pages of newspapers from 151 countries showed similar photographs of a plane crashing into the World Trade Center. Despite this cross-cultural agreement on the most salient image at the time, in the decade since, distinct visual narratives of 9/11 have emerged in newspaper anniversary journalism. This paper examines how The New York Times (…
Continuous revolution: Making sense of Cultural Revolution culture
During China’s Cultural Revolution (1966–1976), artworks and artists endured rigorous restrictions. The Party banned traditional Chinese themes and styles as well as ‘capitalist’ art. It required t
Picturing the past: The Berlin Wall at 25
Although the mass media is an important tool that audiences rely on to learn about the past, the relationship among journalism, history, and memory is still underdeveloped; visual collective memory, like visual studies in other subfields, has received even less attention than written and textual representations of collective memory. To address that gap, this article uses a qualitative content analysis to assess how 15 newspapers commemorated the …
We Can't Remember What We Haven't Seen: Media, War, and the Future of Collective Memory
Research Article| January 01 2013 We Can't Remember What We Haven't Seen: Media, War, and the Future of Collective Memory Rachel Somerstein Rachel Somerstein RACHEL SOMERSTEIN is a writer and a PhD student in mass communications at Syracuse University's Newhouse School of Public Communications. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (2013) 40 (4): 10–14. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2013.40.4.10 Views …
War Photography
Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal
Image, Author, Failure, Chance: A Conversation with Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin
Research Article| May 01 2014 Image, Author, Failure, Chance: A Conversation with Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin Rachel Somerstein Rachel Somerstein RACHEL SOMERSTEIN is a PhD candidate in Mass Communications at Syracuse University, where she studies visual culture. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (2014) 41 (6): 14–19. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2014.41.6.14 Views Icon Views Article conten…
On liminality and loss: A decade of Israeli and Palestinian film
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSI wish to thank Richard Breyer, Laura Osur, and Joe Lingeman for their feedback and suggestions in preparing this review
Newspapers commemorate 11 September: A cross-cultural investigation
On 12 September 2001, as Hans-Peter Feldmann documented in his 2002 installation 9/12 Front Page, the front pages of newspapers from 151 countries showed similar photographs of a plane crashing into the World Trade Center. Despite this cross-cultural agreement on the most salient image at the time, in the decade since, distinct visual narratives of 9/11 have emerged in newspaper anniversary journalism. This paper examines how The New York Times (…
Continuous revolution: Making sense of Cultural Revolution culture
During China’s Cultural Revolution (1966–1976), artworks and artists endured rigorous restrictions. The Party banned traditional Chinese themes and styles as well as ‘capitalist’ art. It required t
Film Review: The Roosevelts: An Intimate History
Book Review| May 01 2015 Film Review: The Roosevelts: An Intimate History The Roosevelts: An Intimate History. Ken Burns, Director; Paul Barnes, Pam Tubridy Baucom, and Ken Burns, Producers; Geoffrey C. Ward, Writer; Peter Coyote, Narrator. Florentine Films. [840 minutes]. Rachel Somerstein Rachel Somerstein SUNY New Paltz Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (2015) 37 (2): 159–162. https:…
The Architecture of Pleasure: British Amusement Parks 1900-1939 by Josephine Kane
Josephine Kane’s intelligent, well-researched book started with a 1920 photograph that the author discovered in Margate Museum’s archives. The picture shows ‘smartly dressed’ people seated at table
Exhibiting patriotism: Creating and contesting interpretations of American historic sites
Visualisation in the age of computerisation by Annamaria Carusi, Aud Sissel Hoel, Timothy Webmoor and Steve Woolgar
Visualisation in the age of computerisation by Annamaria Carusi, Aud Sissel Hoel, Timothy Webmoor and Steve Woolgar." Visual Studies, 31(4), pp. 368–369
Theater of war edited by Meredith Davenport
Picturing the past: The Berlin Wall at 25
Although the mass media is an important tool that audiences rely on to learn about the past, the relationship among journalism, history, and memory is still underdeveloped; visual collective memory, like visual studies in other subfields, has received even less attention than written and textual representations of collective memory. To address that gap, this article uses a qualitative content analysis to assess how 15 newspapers commemorated the …
Stay back for your own safety: News photographers, interference, and the photographs they are prevented from taking
This exploratory, mixed-methods study uses semi-structured interviews to identify the sources of interference that news photographers encounter and then, using survey research, assesses these interferences’ prevalence. It also uses interview and survey data to identify photographs that photographers are prevented from taking and ones taken despite interference. In so doing, the study illuminates how the constraints photojournalists encounter shap…
She’s just another pretty face: ” Sexual Harassment of Female Photographers
This article examines sexual and gendered harassment among professional female editorial photographers, whose experiences have largely been under-researched. It draws on semi-structured interviews conducted between 2017–2019 with 17 female professional editorial photographers, aged 23–82, who work in a variety of beats. Sixteen of 17 interviewees encountered sexual harassment, with gendered harassment the most common. Harassers included professor…
Art (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Visual arts (7 works) · History (6 works) · Media studies (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · History (5 works) · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works)