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Justin Carville @justinmcarville.bsky.social · Aug 7

Contact Zones: Photography, Migration and Cultural Encounters in the United States, eds. Justin Carville & Sigrid Lien. (Leuven: Leuven University Press). Available in paperback and Open Access at LUP and @jstor.bsky.social

Contact Zones | Leuven University Press

The role of photography in U.S. migrant histories Since the mid-nineteenth century photography has played a central role in cultural encounters within and between migrant communities in the United Sta...

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Dr Rose Teanby @roseteanby.bsky.social · 6d

Join me in person or online on 5th November 1pm for a Photo Oxford talk at @bodleianlibs about the photographic and artistic life of Constance Talbot. She witnessed the birth of #photography but maintained a love of art throughout her life. Details here:

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Constance Talbot, early photographer and lifelong artist Talk by Rose Teanby — Photo Oxford

Sir Victor Blank Lecture Theatre, The Bodleian Library Wednesday, 5 November

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Justin Carville @justinmcarville.bsky.social · 8d

I’d largely forgotten about that book! Haven’t looked at it in a long, long time - could have this wrong but I think Newhall criticised Moholy’s methods and Gernsheim’s historical approach differed from hers; interesting that both dominated photo-history in the decades that followed until 1980s

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Justin Carville @justinmcarville.bsky.social · 8d

As an aside, Gisèle Freund wrote one of the first doctorates on the social history of photography in 1936 at the Sorbonne; which was only published 40 years later; Benjamin supposedly attended her defence and the book is influenced by his 1931 ‘A Little History’ essay

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Justin Carville @justinmcarville.bsky.social · 9d

Unlike most photographers, the paranormal researcher did not always use a lens, preferring, instead, to have his subjects directly transmit their soul’s vibrations onto a chemical plate, which was sometimes placed against a person’s forehead to reduce latency.

Imaging Inscape: *The Human Soul* (1913)

Hippolyte Baraduc’s book recounts his invention of a photography-like process in which his subjects directly transmitted their soul’s vibrations onto a chemical plate.

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Justin Carville @justinmcarville.bsky.social · 12d

Nine Stones, Mount Leinster, Co Carlow

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Christina Riggs @christinajriggs.bsky.social · 14d

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Shifting the Frame – Women’s Photographic Practices (1840–1960)

Call for papers (in English) for international conference at Biblioteca Municipal Almeida Garrett, Porto, Portugal, 5–7 March 2026. No registration fee. Deadline for abstracts 4 Oct 2025.

More info: womenphot.fba.up.pt/call-for-pap...

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Jim Mortram : SMALL TOWN INERTIA @smalltowninertia.bsky.social · 14d

Many thanks @huckmagazine for the excellent feature pre the release of Vol 2 of SMALL TOWN INERTIA this October by @imageandreality 🙏✌️

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Justin Carville @justinmcarville.bsky.social · 14d

Djouce Mountains, Co. Wicklow

Justin Carville @justinmcarville.bsky.social · 15d

Seaman’s series, The Big Cloud, interprets the theme – storm – literally, but others among the 12 shortlisted artists take it in different directions, from nuclear bombsites to copulating plankton.

Prix Pictet 2025 – photography prize captures a world battered by storms

From the terrifying scale of natural disaster to endangered plankton in the Atlantic, this year’s finalists all document the tempest engulfing the globe

www.theguardian.com

Justin Carville @justinmcarville.bsky.social · 17d

The winning entries in the 2025 Mono awards, showcasing the best black and white images chosen from more than 3,500 entries and covering the categories of people, places and animals

2025 Mono awards: the best black and white photography in Australia and NZ – in pictures

The winning entries in the 2025 Mono awards, showcasing the best black and white images chosen from more than 3,500 entries and covering the categories of people, places and animals

www.theguardian.com

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Justin Carville @justinmcarville.bsky.social · 19d

“sometimes these images are discarded or we don’t have access to them,” he tells me, “or we have them in our family albums and we hold them dearly, but maybe the photographer is unknown. There are many interesting ways in how we view virtue and care around image making.”

Rahim Fortune paints with colour for his latest exhibition at CPW, Kingston - 1854 Photography

The Austin-born artist engages with the Texas African-American Photography Archive to reveal a compelling portrait of kinship in the American South

www.1854.photography

Justin Carville @justinmcarville.bsky.social · 19d

Wicklow Mountains, Co Wicklow

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Justin Carville @justinmcarville.bsky.social · 22d

“The image, in many ways, visually confirmed things that abolitionists — including formerly enslaved people — had been saying for the longest time: that violence was at the core of American slavery,” Matthew Fox-Amato

‘Scourged Back’ exposed the horror of slavery. Now it’s embroiled in America’s censorship debate | CNN

Claims that federal officials ordered the removal of a the infamous 1863 image sparked concern over the Trump administration’s efforts to eradicate what it calls “corrosive ideology,” despite the US I...

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Justin Carville @justinmcarville.bsky.social · 27d

Dublin photography: A city that has vanished yet feels strangely familiar

Mick Brown's exhibition The Days That Were In It provides a photographic record of Dublin’s street life

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Justin Carville @justinmcarville.bsky.social · 28d

Gilles reached the World Trade Center just before the second tower collapsed. The firemen in the photograph don’t know what’s hit them. The one holding an unlit flashlight, the one with the useless gurney-they stand in their desert of ruin, frozen before the obliteration of their expectations ….

Philip Gourevitch on Gilles Peress’s Photo from September 11th

Peress reached the World Trade Center just as the second tower collapsed.

www.newyorker.com

Justin Carville @justinmcarville.bsky.social · Sep 11

In postwar Italy, the decisive moment was most often one of contrasts—between the wrinkled faces of the agrarian past and the well-tailored suits of Italy’s economic boom, between nostalgia for the Old World and the awareness that, frankly, it really wasn’t so nice.

The Photographer Who Looked Past the Idea of Italy

Gianni Berengo Gardin spent a lifetime revealing the real people, real ironies, and real beauty of a country that people only think they know.

www.newyorker.com

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Justin Carville @justinmcarville.bsky.social · Sep 9

The British Nigerian, Oscar-nominated photographer makes his solo debut at Hope 93, Fitzrovia, in The Purpose of Light – stories of global activism

Misan Harriman highlights protest and resistance, from Palestine to Black civil rights - 1854 Photography

The British Nigerian, Oscar-nominated photographer makes his solo debut at Hope 93, Fitzrovia, in The Purpose of Light – stories of global activism

www.1854.photography

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Justin Carville @justinmcarville.bsky.social · Sep 8

Slieve Blooms, Co Offaly

Justin Carville @justinmcarville.bsky.social · Sep 6

Derryounce Forest, Co Offaly

Justin Carville @justinmcarville.bsky.social · Sep 3

Derryounce Lakes, Co. Offaly

Justin Carville @justinmcarville.bsky.social · Sep 1

“The memory of the prints I made then is hard to separate from the memory of the actual event of taking the photograph,”

Teenage clicks: how child photographer Stephen Shore turned everyday New York moments into magic

Before he found fame at 17 photographing Andy Warhol’s Factory, Shore roamed the city with his camera. He talks about the joy of those early 60s pictures – and why they never made him rich

www.theguardian.com

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Justin Carville @justinmcarville.bsky.social · Sep 1

Derryounce Forrest, Co Offaly

Justin Carville @justinmcarville.bsky.social · Aug 31

Labour leader James Larkin being arrested by R.I.C. otd# 1913 - Bloody Sunday during Dublin Lockout

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Justin Carville @justinmcarville.bsky.social · Aug 30

Interesting photograph, maybe taken by photographer David Knox Griffith in 1894 - Robert Peckham discusses this work in the book (Plague and the City edited by Lukas Engelmann et al) also Christos Lynteris ‘Visual Plague’

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