Blake Stimson is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of California, Davis. Recent and forthcoming publications include Visual Worlds (co-edited with John R. Hall for Routledge, 2005), The Pivot of the World: Photography and Its Nation (MIT 2006) and Collectivism After Modernism: The Art of Social Imagination after 1945 (co-edited with Gregory Sholette for Minnesota, 2006).