Alex Lichtenstein, current editor of the American Historical Review, is a professor of history at Indiana University. The author of many articles on labor, prison, and civil rights history, his previous work on photography is Margaret Bourke-White and the Dawn of Apartheid.
Andrew Lichtenstein is a photographer, journalist, and educator
from Brooklyn, New York. His first book Never Coming Home was
published in 2007.
"Marked, Unmarked, Remembered is startling and extraordinary. From
its images of the past as officials wish us to remember it, to
those of a past that is largely unknown to us because those with
power have deemed it destabilizing, to the capturing of our past as
it has been reclaimed by those invested in rescuing its lessons for
the present, this book is a true gift. It both unsettles our sense
of who we thought we were, and it makes us see the imperative of
forging a more just future for all."
Heather Ann Thompson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Blood in the
Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
"A remarkable and essential work of visual documentary history of
interest to the scholarly and general reader alike."
Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Andrew Lichtenstein sees history all around, even when it's not
evident at first glance. A pastoral, sun-drenched Mississippi
cotton field turns out to be where Emmett Till was murdered. A
tranquil suburban subdivision was the site of untold suffering in
1838, when Cherokee Indians had to endure a brutal winter as the
government forced them westward on the Trail of Tears. He admits
that making pictures of seemingly-ordinary places where tragedy,
conflict or rebellion took place isn't easy. But as has been seen
in recent weeks, there has been a growing movement to not just
remove memorials honoring Confederate generals but to make sure the
counter-narrative is recognized and heard. That sentiment informs
his coming book, Marked, Unmarked, Remembered: A Geography of
American Memory, which will be published in October by the West
Virginia University Press."
New York Times Lens Blog
"Brilliant and memorable."
Los Angeles Review of Books
"There's an eerie silence that permeates throughout Andrew
Lichtenstein's photographs taken at the sites of racial tragedies
in the US. These are places where blood was spilled and unspeakable
horrors inflicted, the consequences of which we are still grappling
with today."
--Gabriel H. Sanchez, photo essay editor, BuzzFeed News
"A thought-provoking addition to the literature on sites of public
memory, complementing titles such as Kenneth Foote's Shadowed
Ground."
Library Journal
"Photographer Andrew Lichtenstein has said that 'acknowledgment is
the first step towards healing.' In his powerful work, which
explores places of historic--and often forgotten--conflict and
trauma, he does more than acknowledge. He testifies. He testifies
to the past, to the present, to the pains that have broken us--and
most of all, to the humanity that defines us. He is setting us on a
badly needed path of healing."
Sara Terry, Founder and Director, The Aftermath Project
"When Jacob awoke from his dream of a heavenly ladder in the Book
of Genesis, he piled stones to mark the spot. We do much the same
today, recognizing certain landscapes as holy or haunted, erecting
markers and memorials--piling stones--to conjure or contain their
uncanny power. In this quietly moving book, Andrew and Alex
Lichtenstein examine some of America's haunted landscapes, offering
a meditation on history, catastrophe, and the wages of memory and
forgetting."
James T. Campbell, author of Middle Passages: African American
Journeys to Africa, 1787-2005
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