Nothing Personal

Carmen Merport is a PhD candidate in the Department of English at the University of Chicago. She studies American literature and visual culture in the 20th century. Her writing appears in There Was a Whole Collection Made: Photography from Lester and Betty Guttman (David &amp; Alfred Smart Museum, University of Chicago Press, 2016), and is forthcoming in Criticism.

Carmen Merport

Everybody Knows His Name: James Baldwin and Richard Avedon’s “Nothing Personal”

"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa

Art &amp; Architecture

"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf

Memoir &amp; Essay

Carmen Merport is a PhD candidate in the Department of English at the University of Chicago. She studies American literature and visual culture in the 20th century. Her writing appears in There Was a Whole Collection Made: Photography from Lester and Betty Guttman (David &amp; Alfred Smart Museum, University of Chicago Press, 2016), and is forthcoming in Criticism.