About the publisher
The MIT Press
Cambridge, MA · University press · Since 1962
The MIT Press is the university press of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It began operating as an independent publisher in 1962 after separating from John Wiley and Sons, although the MIT imprint had published books since 1926. Carroll Bowen was its first director. It publishes books and journals in science, technology, art, social science and design. The press opened a London marketing office in 1969 and launched its first journals in 1970. Its bookstore in Cambridge, Massachusetts, opened in 1980. In 2018 the press and the MIT Media Lab launched the Knowledge Futures Group. Amy Brand has been director since 2015.
The past became visible once Richards learned where to look. For The Inner Passage, Virginia McGee Richards spent fifteen years photographing a waterway in the South Carolina Lowcountry. Photography Book Spotlight