Our guest on this episode is Abigail Solomon-Godeau, the author of Photography after Photography: Gender, Genre, History.

In this podcast:

Early work as a picture editor; doing research for textbooks; working with photographic agencies and libraries; mockups with an Exacto knife (1:45) — Working within the culture industry, or propaganda industry, and the educational apparatu (4:15) — From photographic research, to studying the history of photography in Paris libraries (6:00) — Pioneers in the history of photography: Maria Morris Hambourg at the Metropolitan Museum (9:00) — Writing inside and outside academia (12:00) — Feminism and art history in the 1970s (15:00) — How language and textuality moves the viewer away from a naive or transparent reading of photographs (17:00) — Critical feminist photographic work: Mary Kelly, Martha Rosler (19:00) — Propaganda images e.g. ISIS (21:00) — Photography and the Holocaust: Georges Didi-Huberman (23:45) — Ethics of street photography and the male gaze (28:00) — Pioneering women: Helen Levitt and Diane Arbus (29:00) — Robert Mapplethorpe at the Grand Palais in Paris, 2014: racial politics in the U.S. vs. in France (30:45)