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Image Matters – Archive, Photography, and the African Diaspora in Europe

Autor Tina M. Campt
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 mar 2012
In Image Matters, Tina M. Campt traces the emergence of a black European subject by examining how specific black European communities used family photography to create forms of identification and community. At the heart of Campt’s study are two photographic archives, one comprised primarily of snapshots of black German families taken between 1900 and 1945, and the other assembled studio portraits of West Indian migrants to Birmingham, England, made between 1948 and 1960. Campt shows how these photographs conveyed profound aspirations to forms of national and cultural belonging. In the process, she engages a host of contemporary issues, including the recoverability of non-stereotypical life stories of black people, especially in Europe, and their impact on our understanding of difference within diaspora; the relevance and theoretical approachability of domestic, vernacular photography; and the relationship between affect and photography. Campt places special emphasis on the tactile and sonic registers of family photographs, and uses them read the complexity of “race” in visual signs and to highlight the inseparability of gender and sexuality from any analysis of race and class. Image Matters is an extraordinary reflection on what vernacular photography enabled black Europeans to say about themselves and their communities.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780822350743
ISBN-10: 0822350742
Pagini: 256
Ilustrații: 118 photographs, 10 illustrations
Dimensiuni: 182 x 249 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.6 kg
Editura: MD – Duke University Press

Recenzii

“In this lucid and meticulously argued book, Tina M. Campt questions the way we see and understand race by examining family photographs of Black Europeans. Her detailed readings of studio portraits, snap-shots, and orphaned images engage the multiple sensory registers on which images solicit and touch us. In our encounter with these photographs of belonging, displacement, and exclusion, we are reminded why images matter.” Saidiya Hartman, author of Lose Your Mother“None of the riveting photographs in Image Matters are what they first seem. As Tina M. Campt’s analysis unfolds, the images of black diaspora communities in Europe are revealed to be infinitely complex. They complicate accepted narratives and link to larger questions about the nature of historical evidence and the historical process. Ultimately, they become a prism for thinking about the diasporic condition itself, drawing attention to the diversity of black experience and to the ways that diaspora involves not only movement but also staying put.” Elizabeth Edwards, author of The Camera as Historian: Amateur Photographers and Historical Imagination, 1885–1918

Notă biografică


Cuprins

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Our Family Tales and Photographic Records 1
Part 1. Family Matters: Sight, Sense, Touch 21
1. Family Touches 35
Interstitial 1. The Girl and/in the Gaze 71
2. Orphan Photos, Fugitive Images 83
Part 2. Image Matters: Sight, Sound, Score 115
Interstitial 2. "Thingyness"; or, The Matter of the Image 117
3. The Lyric of the Archive 129
Epilogue 199
Notes 205
Bibliography 223
Illustration Credits 231
Index 233

Descriere

In this writerly text, Tina Campt explores the affective resonances of two archives of Black European photographs for those pictured, their families, and the community. What did the photographs allow the sitters to express? Image Matters looks at photograph collections of four Black German families taken between 1900 and the end of World War II and a set of portraits of Afro-Caribbean migrants to Britain taken at a photographic studio in Birmingham between 1948 and 1960. Campt sees the photographs as paths into the sensory and emotional worlds of those portrayed, and as a key to understanding the lives of Black diasporic communities.