Associate Professor Marni Shindelman has edited a recently released publication, The Focal Press Companion to the Constructed Image in Contemporary Photography. The book was co-edited by Anne Leighton Massoni and published by Routledge.

This compendium examines the choices, construction, inclusions and exemptions, and expanded practices involved in the process of creating a photograph. Focusing on work created in the past twenty-five years, this volume is divided into sections that address a separate means of creating photographs as careful constructs: Directing Spaces, Constructing Places, Performing Space, Building Images, and Camera-less Images. Introduced by both a curator and a scholar, each section features contemporary artists in conversation with curators, critics, gallerists, artists, and art historians. The writings include narratives by the artist, writings on their work, and examinations of studio practices. This pioneering book is the first of its kind to explore this topic beyond those artists building sets to photograph.

Writers included: Kate Palmer Albers, Rebecca Brantley, Jenn Bratovichh, Katherine A. Bussard, Jon Feinstein, Julianna Foster, Bill Gaskins, Margaret Hankel, Leo Hsu, Kelly Kristin Jones, Taia Kwinter, Brooke Leeton, Allison Pappas, Stacy Platt, Madeline Yale Preston, Carson Sanders, William Simmons, Kate Ware, Daniel Weiskopf, Liz Wells, Crissy Welzen, and Natalie Zelt

Interviewed Artists included: Adam Magyar, Darren Harvey Regan, Hank Willis Thomas, Ruth van Beek, Susan kae Grant, Wang Ningde, Thomas Jackson, Laurent Millet, Penelope Umbrico, Mishka Henner, Aspen Mays, Liz Deschenes, Lilly McElroy, and Mary Magsamen & Stephan Hillerbrand

Spotlighted Artists included: Jason DeMarte, Mark Dorf, Anthony Goicolea, Letha Wilson, Eva Stenram, Liliana Porter, Shirana Shahbazi, Susana Reisman, Adam Ekberg, Noémie Goudal, Matt Siber, Natalie Czech, Pato Hebert, Shizuka Yokomizo, Brittany Nelson, Shimpei Takeda, Farrah Karapetian, Stacey Tyrell, Ou Zhihang, and Renee Cox.

Shindelman is Associate Professor in Photography at the Lamar Dodd School of Art. She received her MFA from the University of Florida and a Bachelor of Philosophy in Interdisciplinary Studies from Miami University (Oxford, OH). Prior to joining the Dodd faculty, she taught for ten years at the University of Rochester. Her work has been in exhibitions at Crystal Bridges Museum, solo exhibition Blue Sky in Portland, United Photo Industries in Brooklyn, the Contemporary Arts Center Las Vegas. Light Factory in Charlotte, the FotoFestiwal in Poland, the Houston Center for Photography, Baltimore Museum of Art, the Moscow International Biennale in Russia,and Conflux Festival in NYC. She has been a resident at the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation and Light Work in Syracuse, NY.