Michelle Henning
@michellehenning.bsky.social
Prof at Uni of Liverpool and artist. I write on photography, media, museums, ISOTYPE, modernism, environment & atmosphere. Photography: The Unfettered Image (2018) & A Dirty History of Photography: Chemistry, Fog & Empire, Chicago UP (Fall 2025)
It’s amazing how long lasting the Schumpeterian concept of disruptive innovation has proved to be - over a century old and still being mindlessly repeated by people who think they are at the vanguard of something new.
November 13, 2025 at 9:15 AM
It’s amazing how long lasting the Schumpeterian concept of disruptive innovation has proved to be - over a century old and still being mindlessly repeated by people who think they are at the vanguard of something new.
And again - there’s no “adult content” just Brisa Roche wearing a bra on a record cover… sigh.
November 7, 2025 at 10:13 PM
And again - there’s no “adult content” just Brisa Roche wearing a bra on a record cover… sigh.
I have this - I don’t get panic attacks etc. but I dread and procrastinate… certain tasks but not all, and I am not sure why it is those and not the others.
November 1, 2025 at 7:49 PM
I have this - I don’t get panic attacks etc. but I dread and procrastinate… certain tasks but not all, and I am not sure why it is those and not the others.
Excellent! You’re doing so many amazing things!
October 20, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Excellent! You’re doing so many amazing things!
But also - thanks so much for sharing it, I wouldn’t have come across this otherwise.
October 18, 2025 at 2:31 PM
But also - thanks so much for sharing it, I wouldn’t have come across this otherwise.
It’s fascinating in the details but the “ getting away from the left-right binary” framing puzzles me as what he is arguing is basically socialist. I guess this is because in the US or for him “left” = democrats, or maybe identity politics…
October 18, 2025 at 2:30 PM
It’s fascinating in the details but the “ getting away from the left-right binary” framing puzzles me as what he is arguing is basically socialist. I guess this is because in the US or for him “left” = democrats, or maybe identity politics…
This looks amazing, thank you so much for sharing.
October 17, 2025 at 9:52 PM
This looks amazing, thank you so much for sharing.
There is that.
October 17, 2025 at 5:31 PM
There is that.
But yeah I’m not going to criticise a Sumo wrestler- just concerned for you and how you might rock the look.
October 17, 2025 at 1:02 PM
But yeah I’m not going to criticise a Sumo wrestler- just concerned for you and how you might rock the look.
Sorry
I do realise that they are beautiful traditional footwear, and I love Japanese traditional clothing, but my brain trained on British trivia goes straight to the great socks and sandals debate. It may have been a small war, or a political crisis, I can’t quite remember.
I do realise that they are beautiful traditional footwear, and I love Japanese traditional clothing, but my brain trained on British trivia goes straight to the great socks and sandals debate. It may have been a small war, or a political crisis, I can’t quite remember.
October 17, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Sorry
I do realise that they are beautiful traditional footwear, and I love Japanese traditional clothing, but my brain trained on British trivia goes straight to the great socks and sandals debate. It may have been a small war, or a political crisis, I can’t quite remember.
I do realise that they are beautiful traditional footwear, and I love Japanese traditional clothing, but my brain trained on British trivia goes straight to the great socks and sandals debate. It may have been a small war, or a political crisis, I can’t quite remember.
If it wasn’t for the socks-flip flops combo I could see the attraction
October 17, 2025 at 12:51 PM
If it wasn’t for the socks-flip flops combo I could see the attraction
It’s a rare academic article that uses the word “peristaltic”! Loved it, made me think about the photographic factories and how open/ closed to visitors they were and how they also used the white uniforms to signify both the purity of the product and an implied moral purity.
October 12, 2025 at 9:55 AM
It’s a rare academic article that uses the word “peristaltic”! Loved it, made me think about the photographic factories and how open/ closed to visitors they were and how they also used the white uniforms to signify both the purity of the product and an implied moral purity.
Hurray! Reading it over a cooked breakfast!
October 12, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Hurray! Reading it over a cooked breakfast!
This is a really useful thread, thankyou. As a UK professor (now) and previously lecturer- I have never fully understood the US system and what “tenure” means.
October 11, 2025 at 10:54 PM
This is a really useful thread, thankyou. As a UK professor (now) and previously lecturer- I have never fully understood the US system and what “tenure” means.
Mine too- it was admittedly bad last year but 3 weeks into the new semester I’ve had very high attendance.
October 11, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Mine too- it was admittedly bad last year but 3 weeks into the new semester I’ve had very high attendance.
Good question! As I understand it, resin coated papers use polyethylene, and were introduced in around the 1960s. However my book’s focus is mainly on the interwar period. So it predates PFAs, though I mention them, as the river Roding in Ilford, is extremely contaminated by them.
October 8, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Good question! As I understand it, resin coated papers use polyethylene, and were introduced in around the 1960s. However my book’s focus is mainly on the interwar period. So it predates PFAs, though I mention them, as the river Roding in Ilford, is extremely contaminated by them.
Gernsheim was influenced by it according to an oral history at the British Library- Newhall reviewed it very negatively- it contradicted his attempt to create a style-based history of photography
October 3, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Gernsheim was influenced by it according to an oral history at the British Library- Newhall reviewed it very negatively- it contradicted his attempt to create a style-based history of photography
It influenced Lucia Moholy’s underrated 1939 book A Hundred years of Photography which in turn had a strong impact on…
October 2, 2025 at 9:45 PM
It influenced Lucia Moholy’s underrated 1939 book A Hundred years of Photography which in turn had a strong impact on…
Oh no Ros! I’m sorry I didn’t know you are ill. I hope you get better quickly, that sounds horrible.
October 2, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Oh no Ros! I’m sorry I didn’t know you are ill. I hope you get better quickly, that sounds horrible.