Christopher Phillips coauthored "The New Vision: Photography Between the World Wars, Ford Motor Company Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, "contributing an essay on European photography and the avant-garde in the 1920s and 1930s. He has taught courses in the history of photography at the Tisch School of the Arts of New York University, Parsons School of Design, and the International Center of Photography. He is the associate editor of "Art in America."