Diana Kamin
@dianakamin.bsky.social
History of photography, archives, museums. Book: Picture-Work, how Libraries, Museums, and Stock Agencies Launched a New Image Economy
Proud of my brother for getting this op-ed published in Stars and Stripes. Veterans and military service members risk so much speaking out, Congress showing the tiniest bit of spine to demand accountability is the very least they can do to honor that risk
When elected leaders asked about the legal basis for recent domestic deployments, they were called "seditious." When troops ask, they face silence.
This isn't how a democracy works. We need sworn testimony, not political theater. John Kamin explains in Stars and Stripes: https://bit.ly/4iEFNgd
This isn't how a democracy works. We need sworn testimony, not political theater. John Kamin explains in Stars and Stripes: https://bit.ly/4iEFNgd
Domestic deployment has been shrouded in secrecy. The Senate must demand answers.
www.stripes.com
December 11, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Proud of my brother for getting this op-ed published in Stars and Stripes. Veterans and military service members risk so much speaking out, Congress showing the tiniest bit of spine to demand accountability is the very least they can do to honor that risk
Talking this week at newly reopened Princeton Art Museum about Picture-Work and photo history’s futures. Another chance to promote the book’s central arg that we must pay attention to labor to understand picture culture. Free, Wednesday 5pm artmuseum.princeton.edu/exhibitions-...
Photo History’s Futures: Diana Kamin | Princeton University Art Museum
This year’s installment features Diana Kamin, author of Picture-Work: How Libraries, Museums, and Stock Agencies Launched a New Image Economy (MIT Press, 2023). Kamin is an advanced lecturer in the De...
artmuseum.princeton.edu
November 17, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Talking this week at newly reopened Princeton Art Museum about Picture-Work and photo history’s futures. Another chance to promote the book’s central arg that we must pay attention to labor to understand picture culture. Free, Wednesday 5pm artmuseum.princeton.edu/exhibitions-...
For any Philly folks, I’m talking about picture work, libraries and public lives of images with the luminous @shannonmattern.bsky.social at the Public Trust at UPenn on Monday 2/25 at 6pm publictrust.org/picture-work...
publictrust.org
March 22, 2024 at 5:06 PM
For any Philly folks, I’m talking about picture work, libraries and public lives of images with the luminous @shannonmattern.bsky.social at the Public Trust at UPenn on Monday 2/25 at 6pm publictrust.org/picture-work...
Hi Bsky! Inviting any New Yorkers to my first talk for my book Picture-Work (a deep dive on library, museum, and stock photo collections and how they train us to see). Feb 9, 2pm at NYPL. Should be a lovely conversation about the Picture Collection; an NYC gem. www.showclix.com/event/dianak...
January 23, 2024 at 4:29 PM
Hi Bsky! Inviting any New Yorkers to my first talk for my book Picture-Work (a deep dive on library, museum, and stock photo collections and how they train us to see). Feb 9, 2pm at NYPL. Should be a lovely conversation about the Picture Collection; an NYC gem. www.showclix.com/event/dianak...