Andrew Holter
Andrew Holter is the editor of Going Around: Selected Journalism by Murray Kempton (Seven Stories Press). He lives in Chicago.
When we rely on cameras to document state violence, how much are we actually relying on other people to do something when they see those images? How do we preserve the potency of these images and direct their interpretation without manipulating or fabricating them, as the state has already demonstrated its willingness to do, and without dishonoring the people being assaulted, kidnapped, or killed?
April 2024Art Books
Craig Oldham’s In Loving Memory of Work: A Visual Record of the UK Miners’ Strike 1984-85
Dimly remembered in the United States, the strike by the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) in 1984–85 was a pivotal ordeal in Britain. This updated edition offers an incredible range of materials against forgetting the visual culture from the National Union of Mineworkers strike.
Curated by the Portrait Gallery’s Dorothy Moss and David C. Ward, The Sweat of Their Face “aims to re-inscribe the important roles that laborers have had in shaping the United States since the colonial era.”
February 2018Art Books
Rediscovering an American Community of Color: The Photographs of William Bullard, 1897-1917
“Negroes can never have impartial portraits at the hands of white artists,” Frederick Douglass wrote in an editorial for The Liberator nearly 170 years ago.
June 2017Art Books
Looking Backward: A Photographic Portrait of the World at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century
When Pantheon published Michael Lesy’s Wisconsin Death Trip in 1973 (and in sordid paperback, as well as hardcover), critics offered their amused attention and the kind of gatekeeperish admonitions that rock writers dole out to the debut albums of upstart groups.
