Women Mobilizing Memory Working Group Co-Director Reviewed by the Los Angeles Review of Books

Marianne Hirsch, former director of the Center for the Study of Social Difference and Women Mobilizing Memory working group co-director, had her book, School Photos in Liquid Time: Reframing Difference, reviewed in a piece titled, “The Institutional Gaze of the School” by the LA Review of Books. The book explores the history of school photos and their role within the ideological state apparatuses of hegemonic socio-political systems. School Photos in Liquid Time, co-authored by Leo Spitzer, offers a closer look at this genre of vernacular photography, tracing how photography advances ideologies of social assimilation as well as those of hierarchy and exclusion.