About
Nadya Bair is assistant professor of Art History at Hamilton College in Clinton, NY. Bair’s first monograph, The Decisive Network: Magnum Photos and the Postwar Image Market (University of California Press, 2020), won the 2021 PROSE Award for Media and Cultural Studies. Bair’s articles on the history of photojournalism have appeared in the journals American Art, History of Photography, Fotogeschichte, and edited volumes including Facing Black Star (MIT Press, 2023) and Life Magazine and the Power of Photography (Yale, 2020). Bair’s current book project, on New York’s International Center of Photography and its founder Cornell Capa, was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship for 2023-2024 and a Frankel Institute Fellowship for 2025-2026. The project considers how the institutional history of documentary photography intersects with Jewish history and memory.
