Photography and Failure: One Medium's Entanglement with Flops, Underdogs, and Disappointments Edited by Kris Belden Adams. Bloomsbury, London and New York, 2017. 231 pages, with 30 black & white illustrations. Hardcover $162.00, ISBN 978-1-474-29339-6.
Shadow Modernism: Photography, Writing, and Space in Shanghai, 1925–1937 William Schaefer. Duke University Press, Durham, NC and London, 2017. 292 pages, with 46 colour and black & white illustrations. Paperback $26.95, ISBN 978-0-822-36919-6.