Shawn Michelle Smith

At the Edge of Sight

Photography and the Unseen

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Shawn Michelle Smith is Associate Professor of Visual and Critical Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is the author of Photography on the Color Line: W. E. B. Du Bois, Race, and Visual Culture (also published by Duke University Press) and American Archives: Gender, Race, and Class in Visual Culture; coauthor of Lynching Photographs; and coeditor of Pictures and Progress: Early Photography and the Making of African American Identity (also published by Duke University Press).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. November 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780822354864
• ISBN-10: 0822354861
• Artikelnr.: 37182631

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xv Introduction. First Photographs 1
Excess and Accident 21 1. Race and Reproduction in Camera Lucida 23 2. The Politics of Pictorialism: Another Look at F. Holland Day 39
My Muybridge 73 3. The Space Between: Eadweard Muybridge's Motion Studies 75 4. Preparing the Way for the Train: Andrew J. Russell 99
When the Train Rolls In 129 5. Chansonetta Stanley Emmons's Nostalgic Views 131 6. Augustus Washington and the Civil Contract of Photography 165
In the Crowd 193 7. Afterimages: Abu Ghraib 195
Untitled (Abu Graib) 213 Epilogue. A Parting Glance 215 Notes 217 Bibliography 265 Index 283