Dr. Sally Stein, Professor Emerita, UC Irvine, has long investigated photographic topics in relation to broader questions of culture and society. She has written extensively on the New Deal’s FSA photography- particularly work by Lange, Post Wolcott, and Delano - as well as the contested image of U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt. Along with numerous essays about popular mass media – Ladies Home Journal, Life and Look – Stein continues to study the rise of color photography in print. Stein has curated and written about the distinctive work of Ken Ohara, Melissa Shook, and Gail Rebhan; at Paris Photo 2023, Stein considers the self-portraiture of Shook and Ohara in historical context.