Eduardo Cadava will discuss his most recent book, Paper Graveyards, with Spyros Papapetros. A collection of essays spanning twenty years—from 9/11 to the present pandemic, and covering materials from, among others, Nadar, Roland Barthes, Leon Golub, Nancy Spero, Fazal Sheikh, Susan Meiselas, Joan Fontcuberta, Isaac Julien, and Carrie Mae Weems—the book delineates different modes of reading that, taking their point of departure from the conviction that the past, the present, and the future are always bound together, provide us with the outline of a training manual for reading images historically, especially in moments of danger.

 
Eduardo Cadava is the author of Emersonand the Climates of History, Words of Light: Theses on the Photography of History, and, most recently, Paper Graveyards. He also has co-edited Who Comes After the Subject?, Cities Without Citizens, and The Itinerant Languages of Photography.
 
Spyros Papapetros is an Associate Professor at Princeton’s School of Architecture. Forthcoming book publications include Pre/Architecture (Critical Spatial Practice series edited by Nikolaus Hirsch/Sternberg-MIT Press, 2022) and Frederick Kiesler’s Magic Architecture: The Story of Human Housing (The MIT Press, 2023).

This event is cosponsored by Labyrinth Books.