Drew Thompson’s book Coloring Surveillance through Polaroids: The Poetics of Black Solidarity and Sociality will examine the role Polaroids have played in African and African American histories of activism and artistic creation.
Drew Thompson is associate professor at Bard Graduate Center and Bard College. His research focuses on social practice art, documentary and vernacular photography, and the art of Black solidarity movements. He is the author of Filtering Histories: The Photographic Bureaucracy in Mozambique, 1960 to Recent Times (University of Michigan Press, 2021). His writing on contemporary art has appeared in edited volumes published by the Art Institute of Chicago, The Image Centre, and the Studio Museum in Harlem.