Molly Nesbit teaches and writes on twentieth century art, film and photography. Her two books, Atget's Seven Albums (1992) and Their Common Sense (2000) comprise a part of this work; her work also involves a stream of essays on contemporary art. She is a contributing editor of Artforum, has taught at the University of California, Berkeley and Barnard College, Columbia University, and has received many awards, notably from the Guggenheim Foundation and the J. Paul Getty Trust.