Stacy J. Platt

Teaching as Resistance

Whether it's a studio art class, a writing class or a photo history class, I start the first day of every new course each semester the same way: by showing an

A Weighty Solar Return

Today I turn 50. Half a century! I joked that this birthday feels like the 50lb anvil that lands on Wile E. Coyote—kachunk!—and instead of ACME it reads 50 YEARS. I

Confessions of a Photobook Addict

Dear Reader, On this day, October 14th, 2019, the 166th anniversary of the publication of the world’s first photobook (Photographs of British algae: Cyanotype impressions, by Anna Atkins), I make the following