About the Author

Gisela Parak is the director of the Brunswick Museum for Photography in Germany and teaches at the Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart and at Brunswick Technical University. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, at Washington University, St. Louis, and at the GHI in Washington, D.C. Her work focuses on the history and theory of photography, American cultural history, and art history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Reviews

"Among the publication's other great merits are Gisela Parak's continuous ambition to embed all photographic images and historical, political, cultural and medial developments in their (trans)national and global contexts." Susanne Leikam, ICON, 22/4 (2017) Besprochen in: Isis, 6 (2018), Graham Burnett