Publications

Zamir, Shamomon. Photography and Citizenship: The Art and Politics of The Family of Man. Silvana Editoriale / CAN, 2026.

Zamir, Shamoon. Helen Levitt-New York. Museum of Modern Art (2021).

Zamir, Shamoon. The Gift of the Face, Portraiture and Time in Edward S. Curtis's The North American Indian UNC Press Books, 2014.

Zamir, Shamoon. Dark Voices, W. E. B. Du Bois and American Thought, 1888-1903. University of Chicago Press, 1995.

Zamir, Shamoon, ed. Yasser Alwan: Egypt Every Day. Hatje Cantz, 2022.

Hurm, Gerd, Anke Reitz, and Shamoon Zamir, eds. The Family of Man Revisited: Photography in a Global Age. IB Tauris, 2018.

De Bello, Patrizia, Colette Wilson, and Shamoon Zamir, eds. The Photo Book from Talbot to Ruscha and Beyond. IB Tauris, 2012.

Zamir, Shamoon,  The Cambridge Companion to W. E. B Du Bois, Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Duncan, Robert Edward, Eric Mottram, Amy Evans, and Shamoon Zamir. The Unruly Garden, Robert Duncan and Eric Mottram Letters and Essays Vol. 6. Peter Lang, 2007.

Ahmad, Zamiruddi. The East Wind and Other Short Stories, trans. Shamoon Zamir. Oxford University Press. 2002.

Zamir, Shamoon. "The Family of Man as Archive and Place." In Photo Archives and the Place of Photography, edited by Geraldine A. Johnson and Deborah Schultz, 128–144. London: Routledge, 2025.

Zamir, Shamoon. "Egypt Every Day: The Photographs of Yasser Alwan." In Yasser Alwan: Egypt Every Day, edited by Shamoon Zamir, 107–119. Berlin: Hatje Cantz, 2022.

Zamir, Shamoon. "Nowhere, Now Here: Lee Friedlander’s Self-Portrait and the National Ground." In Picturing America: Photography and the Sense of Place, edited by Kerstin Schmidt and Julia Feist, 32–48. Leiden: Brill / Rodopi, 2019.

Zamir, Shamoon. "The Family of Man in Munich: Visitors’ Reactions." In The Family of Man Revisited: Photography in a Global Age, edited by Gerd Hurm, Anke Reitz, and Shamoon Zamir, 77–94. London: I.B. Tauris, 2018.

Zamir, Shamoon. "Structures of Rhyme, Forms of Participation: The Family of Man as Exhibition." In The Family of Man Revisited: Photography in a Global Age, edited by Gerd Hurm, Anke Reitz, and Shamoon Zamir, 133–158. London: I.B. Tauris, 2018.

Hurm, Gerd, Anke Reitz, and Shamoon Zamir. "The Family of Man Revisited." In The Family of Man Revisited: Photography in a Global Age, edited by Gerd Hurm, Anke Reitz, and Shamoon Zamir, 23–46. London: I.B. Tauris, 2018.

Zamir, Shamoon. "Lost and Found: The Yasser Alwan Photography Collection at Akkasah." Jadaliyya, June 19, 2017.

Zamir, Shamoon. "Images of Time: Portraiture in The North American Indian." In Return to the Land of the Head Hunters: Edward S. Curtis, the Kwakwaka'wakw, and the Making of Modern Cinema, edited by Brad Evans and Aaron Glass, 268–296. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2014.

Zamir, Shamoon. "Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr." In Fifty Key Writers on Photography, edited by Mark Durden, 137–142. London: Routledge, 2012.

Zamir, Shamoon. "'Art Science': The North American Indian as Phototext." In The Photobook from Talbot to Ruscha and Beyond, edited by Patrizia Di Bello, Colette Wilson, and Shamoon Zamir, 35–51. London: I.B. Tauris, 2012.

Zamir, Shamoon. "Scenes of Picturing: Gerald Vizenor’s Phototext." In Gerald Vizenor: Texts and Contexts, edited by Deborah L. Madsen and A. Robert Lee, 166–185. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2011.

Zamir, Shamoon. "Scandals in the House of Anthropology: Notes Towards a Reading of Nathaniel Tarn." Xcp: Cross Cultural Poetics, no. 5 (1999): 99–122.

Reprinted in Jacket Magazine 39 (2010).

Zamir, Shamoon. "The Image in the Archive: Gerald Vizenor’s A People Named the Chippewa." In Writing with Light: Words and Photographs in American Texts, edited by Mick Gidley, 143–162. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2009.

Zamir, Shamoon. "Neo-HooDoo: Proposals for a Literary History." Xcp: Cross Cultural Poetics, no. 19 (2008): 100–132.

Zamir, Shamoon, and C. Wilkerson. "W. E. B. Du Bois and the 'New Negro'." In The Cambridge Companion to W. E. B. Du Bois, edited by Shamoon Zamir, 64–75. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Zamir, Shamoon. "The Souls of Black Folk: Thought and Afterthought." In The Cambridge Companion to W. E. B. Du Bois, edited by Shamoon Zamir, 7–36. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Zamir, Shamoon, and Amy Evans, eds. "Between Revelation and Persuasion: Eric Mottram and Robert Duncan." Jacket Magazine, no. 34 (Winter 2007).

Zamir, Shamoon. "Living Among the Dead: Richard Throssel and the Picturing of History at Little Bighorn." In Place and Native American Indian History and Culture, edited by Joy Porter, 49–70. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2007.

Zamir, Shamoon. "Native Agency and the Making of The North American Indian: Alexander B. Upshaw and Edward S. Curtis." American Indian Quarterly 31, no. 4 (2007): 613–653.

Zamir, Shamoon. "Introduction." In The East Wind and Other Short Stories, by Zamiruddin Ahmad, ix–xxii. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Zamir, Shamoon. "A Prosody of Those Dark Voices: The Transformation of Consciousness." Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism 169 (2006).

Reprinted from Dark Voices: W. E. B. Du Bois and American Thought, 1888–1903 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995).

Zamir, Shamoon. "Mumbo Jumbo: Ishmael Reed, Psychohistory and Counter-culture." Democratic Vistas 2, no. 1 (1994): 4–24.

Zamir, Shamoon. "The Sorrow Songs/Song of Myself: Du Bois, the Crisis of Leadership and the Prophetic Imagination." In The Black Columbiad: Defining Moments in Afro-American Literature and Culture, edited by Werner Sollors and Maria Diedrich, 145–166. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1994.

Reprinted in W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk, edited by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Terri Hume Oliver, 346–364 (A Norton Critical Edition; New York: W. W. Norton, 1999).

Zamir, Shamoon. "The Artist as Prophet, Priest and Gunslinger: Ishmael Reed's Cowboy in the Boat of Ra." Callaloo 17, no. 4 (1994): 1205–1235.

Reprinted in African-American Poets: Robert Hayden through Rita Dove, edited by Harold Bloom, 205–244 (Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 2003); and in Contemporary Literary Criticism (Thompson Gale, 2003).

Zamir, Shamoon. "Literature in a 'National Sacrifice Area': Leslie Silko's Ceremony." In New Voices in Native American Literary Criticism, edited by Arnold Krupat, 396–418. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1993.

Zamir, Shamoon. "Blake in Birdland: Displacement and Metamorphosis in the Poetry of Ishmael Reed." In Literary Theory and Poetry: Extending the Canon, edited by David Murray, 127–148. London: B. T. Batsford, 1989.