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exposure, SPE's journal, has been published since 1973 and is a benefit of membership. exposure is published bi-annually in Spring (March) and Fall (September). The print run of each issue is 2,500 copies.

exposure welcomes submissions from photographers, historians, critics, writers, professors, instructors, and students. Preference is given to SPE members but membership is not required for publication in exposure.

Deadlines:
Submissions are accepted year-round.

Essays:
Please submit an abstract or outline of a proposed paper of no more than 2 typewritten, double-spaced pages. Include your name, institutional affiliation, if any, and contact information. If your essay is selected, you will be asked to submit the full-length manuscript at that time.

Images:
We accept submissions from image makers in any of the following formats/media:

Slides
Copy prints (Please do not submit original photographs. We cannot be responsible for them.)
CD or DVD
URL

Please do not submit image files larger than 1MB each via E-mail.

Include a self-addressed, stamped envelope for the return of materials. Otherwise, we will dispose of/recycle all materials received.

Please submit materials to:
Carla Williams
Editor, exposure
Carla@spenational.org
P.O. Box 2636
San Francisco, CA 94126

All issues $15, with exception of double issues $30 each. Please list volume/number of issue and quantity. Add $2 per issue for shipping ($10 shipping outside the U.S.). Orders will be shipped first-class upon receipt of payment to SPE. For Visa or MasterCard purchases, mail or fax credit card number and expiration date, or mail check and your order to:

Address SPE exposure
Society for Photographic Education
2530 Superior Avenue, #403
Cleveland, OH 44114
Phone 216 622 2733
Fax 216 622 2712
Email advertising@spenational.org

exposure is published twice yearly by the Society for Photographic Education. Domestic subscription rate is $35 annually, outside the U.S. $50 annually. The journal is available to individuals through an SPE membership, or by purchasing issues (see instructions above).

Printable exposure order form (107k pdf)




Recent Issues

exposure 42:1
Spring 2009

Talk: Clarissa Sligh and Zanele Muholi in Conversation with Carla Williams

Portfolio: Anthony Marchetti’s Apartment for Rent • Interview by Ivy Cooper

Portfolio: David Gardner’s Marking Our Place in the World • Doreen Schmid

Write: White on Black: Power Relations in F. Holland Day’s • Ebony and Ivory by Cherise Smith

Interview: Mark Dion Considered by Colette Copeland

Profile : Barbara Mensch’s South Street by Melissa Rachleff

Reviews

Colette Copeland on Jo Whaley’s Theater of Insects
Kris Belden-Adams on The Call of Trains
Robin Michals on Ichthyo: The Architecture of Fish, X-Rays from the Smithsonian Institution
Christina Z. Anderson on Henry Horenstein’s Animalia (DVD)
Christina Z. Anderson on Night and Low-Light Photography

exposure 41:2
Fall 2008

Talk: Margot Herster in Conversation with Daniel Heyman & Chris Bartlett

Portfolio 1: Sheila Pree Bright’s Young Americans • Interview by Bridget R. Cooks

Portfolio 2: On Labor and Looking: Erin V. Sotak’s Consuming Tableaux • Anna Campbell

Interview: Rediscovering Jacob Riis: A Conversation with Daniel Czitrom & Bonnie Yochelson • Melissa Rachleff

Interview: Colette Copeland in Conversation with Blaise Tobia

Reviews

Ivy Cooper on Danny Wilcox Frazier’s Driftless: Photographs from Iowa
Ivy Cooper on Brad Zellar’s Suburban World: The Norling Photos
Robin Michals on Ichthyo: The Architecture of Fish, X-Rays from the Smithsonian Institution
Marie-Susanne Langille on Manufactured Landscapes (DVD)
Melissa Rachleff on Weegee and the Naked City
Kris Belden-Adams on Documenting the Face of America: Roy Stryker and the F.S.A./O.W.I. Photographers (DVD)
Colette Copeland on Alex Kirkbride’s American Waters