Books and Catalogues (current and forthcoming)
Darwin's Camera: Art and Photography in the Theory of Evolution,
[New York and London: Oxford University Press, October 2009].Paul Outerbridge: New Color Photographs from California and Mexico, 1948-1952, with Graham Howe and William Ewing, [Portland, Oregon: Nazraeli, 2009].
E. O. Hoppé's Amerika: Modernist Photographs from the 1920s, [London and New York: W. W. Norton & Co., August 2007].
Impressionist Camera: Pictorial Photography in Europe, 1888-1918, (editor, with Patrick Daum and Françoise Ribemont) [London and New York: Merrell Publishers, February 2006].
Time Stands Still: Muybridge and the Instantaneous Photography Movement, [New York: Oxford University Press, 2003].
Annotated Catalogue of Illustrations of Human and Animal Expression from the Collection of Charles Darwin, [Lewiston, New York and Lampeter, Wales: Edwin Mellen Press, 1998].
Articles
"Photography and its Discontents," Words Without Pictures, [Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2009] pp. 17-19.
"Ugly Disagreements: Darwin and Ruskin Discuss Sex and Beauty," The Art of Evolution: Darwin, Darwinisms and Visual Cultures, Barbara Larson and Fae Brauer eds. [Dartmouth: University Press of New England, June 2009]. "Joni Sternbach: Between Land and Sea," SurfLand: Photographs by Joni Sternbach, [Portland, Oregon: PhotoLucida, 2009].
"Fluid, Plastic, Pictorial," Exit, 'Pictorialism,' vol. 30, May/June/July 2008.
"Nature Exposed: Photography as Eyewitness in Victorian Science," (book review), British Journal of the History of Science, vol. 41, issue 3, September 2008, pp. 378-9.
"Jerry Uelsmann: The Image beyond the Image," Imaginary Space: Jerry Uelsmann Retrospective, [Beijing: World Art Museum and China Photographic Publishing House, 2007], pp 8-20. Also in Whispers of Blended Shadows: The Art of Jerry Uelsmann, [Taipei: Taipei Fine Arts Museum, 2008], pp 12-27, and Outside In, The Transformative Vision of Jerry Uelsmann, [Kaohsiung: Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, 2009] pp. 6-29.
"Imaginary Space: The Photography of Jerry Uelsmann," Chinese Photography, vol. 335, May 2007, pp. 80-5."Sight Unseen: The Photographs of Maggie Taylor and Jerry Uelsmann," Maggie Taylor / Jerry Uelsmann, [Seoul: Museum of Photography, Seoul, 2007].
The Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography, (contributor) [New York: Routledge, 2007].
"Art as Collective Memory," Apollo, vol. CLXII, no. 521, February 2006, pp. 86-8.
"Eadweard Muybridge: Occident Trotting," The Folio Book of the 100 Greatest Photographs, Mark Haworth-Booth, ed., [London: Folio Society, 2006], pp. 60-1.
"A Transatlantic Art: European Pictorialism in the United States," Impressionist Camera: Pictorial Photography in Europe, 1888-1918, [London and New York: Merrell Press, February 2006], pp. 232-49.
"The World in Saint Louis: The Art Palace at the 1904 World's Fair," Apollo, vol. CLX, no. 514, December 2004, pp. 63-9.
Saint Louis Art Museum: Handbook of the Collections, (contributor) [St. Louis: Saint Louis Art Museum, 2004].
Currents 92: Anna Kuperberg, [St. Louis: Saint Louis Art Museum, 2004]."How Did Muybridge Do It?," Aperture, No. 158: 'Time,' Spring 2000, pp. 12-16.
"Rejlander, Darwin, and the Evolution of Ginx's Baby," History of Photography, vol. 23, no. 3, Autumn 1999, pp. 260-8.
"Photography and The Expression of the Emotions," in Charles Darwin, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, Paul Ekman, ed., [London: HarperCollins Publishers, 1998; New York: Oxford University Press, 1998; Tokyo: Kessinger, 2005], pp. 399-423.
"Illustration as Strategy in Charles Darwin's Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals," Inscribing Science: Scientific Texts and the Materiality of Communication, Timothy Lenoir, ed., [Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998], pp. 140-182. The introduction to the book is on-line here.
"The Romance and Reality of the Horse in Motion," Marey/Muybridge, Pionniers du cinéma, [Dijon: Conseil Régionale de Bourgogne, 1996], pp. 44-71.
"The Secret Passion of Heinrich Kuehn's Frau Ingenieur Richter," Stanford University Museum of Art Journal, vol. XXIV-XXV, 1994-1995, pp. 25-32.
"The Folberg Collection at Stanford," Stanford University Museum of Art Journal, vol. XXIV-XXV, 1994-1995, pp. 39-47.
Translations
"Fluido, plástico, pictórico; Exit, 'Pictorialismo,' 30, Mayo/Junio/Julio 2008.
"Un art transatlantique: Les échanges entre pictorialistes européens et américains," La photographie pictorialiste en Europe: 1888-1918, [Paris: le Point du Jour, 2005], pp. 236-253.
"Imaginaire et réalité du cheval en mouvement," Marey/Muybridge, Pionniers du cinéma, [Dijon: Conseil Régionale de Bourgogne, 1996], pp. 44-71.
"Fotografie en Het uitdrukken van emoties," en Charles Darwin, Het uitdrukken van emoties bij mens en dier, Paul Ekman ed. [Amsterdam: Uitgeverij Nieuwezijds, 1998], pp. 413-26.
"La fotografia e l'Espressione delle emozioni," in Charles Darwin, l'Espressione delle Emozioni Paul Ekman ed. [Torino: Bollati Boringhieri, 1999], pp. 434-49.
Translations of my work have also appeared in Chinese and Korean.