The Journal is PHSNE’s annual full-color magazine format publication. Its engaging, well-researched articles, along with beautifully printed photographs and illustrations, cover a wide range of photographic subjects, from Watergate burglars to historic daguerreotypes, one-of-a-kind travel albums, camera inventors, local photographers, and much more.
The 2025 New England Journal of Photographic History contains four articles that further our knowledge of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century photography in New England. Authors Lee McIntyre, John Felix, and Chris Culy introduce…
The 2024 New England Journal of Photographic History (Issue #182) features five detailed and richly illustrated articles, including two pieces linked to the late 19th-century Pictorialist movement in photography. One…
The 2023 New England Journal of Photographic History celebrates PHSNE’s Golden (50th) Anniversary. Heavily illustrated with photographs from the Society’s archives, the issue describes the formation and evolution of the…
The 2022 New England Journal of Photographic History, #180, begins over 100 years before the McDonald’s empire of franchises spread across the world. A New England father and son built…
The 2021 New England Journal of Photographic History, #179, contains two fascinating articles. The first details the development of an engineering marvel, the camera used in the once highly classified…
The 2020 New England Journal of Photographic History, #178. This monograph by author Ron Polito, explores the lives, careers, and photographic techniques of Boston photographers Thomas E. Marr (1849-1910) and…
The 2019 New England Journal of Photographic History, #177, features original research on one of the most iconic photographic portraits of all time: the unique daguerreotype of beloved poet Emily…
The 2018 New England Journal of Photographic History, #176, features Simon Wing, a New England photographer, entrepreneur, and one-time presidential candidate, his invention, the Wing Multiplying Camera, and the life…
The Grand Tour Travel Album, featured in the 2017 PHSNE Journal, is a unique treasure. It documents an 80-day, 11,900-mile European tour during the summer of 1889 by four young, unmarried…
The 2017 New England Journal of Photographic History, #175. Contents include: “Myself and Her Grand Tour Travel Album,” a unique 1889 album of captioned early Kodak snapshots and commercial travel…
The 2016 New England Journal of Photographic History, #174, is themed around the art and practice of portraiture. Contents: Two Sides of 19th-Century Photography, how studio photographers strove to differentiate…
The 2015 New England Journal of Photographic History, #173, contains: The Watergate Break-In Cameras – what the burglars really used; Way Back to School – College Dorm Room Photos (c.1900);…
The 2014 New England Journal of Photographic History, #172, includes articles on: The Saturday Night Club – Photos of ‘Risque’ Behavior at the Turn of the Century (1900s college life); Modifications…
The 2013 New England Journal of Photographic History, #171, celebrates the 40th anniversary of the society. Articles in this special issue include: Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy’s wedding photos; the photo history…