My name is Jacob W. Lewis.

I write and teach about photographs and their histories. I enjoy collaborating with scholars, artists, educators, and more. If you are looking to hire me, please visit client services and get in touch.

I also record amateur music and can help you with sound editing and/or sound mixing, if that's your thing.

I live in Catonsville, Maryland.

Recent Publications

  • Passages, Origins, & Margins

    Gabriel Cromer, Walter Benjamin, and Photography's History, in The Cromer Collection of Nineteenth-Century French Photography (Yale, 2022)

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  • Early Photography's Presence

    in Ubiquity: Photography's Multitudes (Leuven, 2021)

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  • Early Photogravure & the Material Unconscious

    in Photography’s Materialities: Transatlantic Photographic Practices over the Long Nineteenth Century (Leuven, 2021)

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About me

With a PhD in Art History from Northwestern University, I've worked as faculty at the Georgetown University, MICA, American University, Rochester Institute of Technology, as well as the University of Rochester. I also have experience with projects for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, George Eastman Museum, and the Clark Art Institute. For more, please view my CV.

In addition to my scholarship, I play a few instruments and record music as Gossip Is Murder.