Pictures and Progress – Early Photography and the Making of African American Identity
Autor Maurice O. Wallace, Shawn Michelle Smithen Limba Engleză Paperback – 18 iun 2012
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780822350859
ISBN-10: 0822350858
Pagini: 400
Ilustrații: 71 photographs
Dimensiuni: 162 x 234 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.7 kg
Editura: MD – Duke University Press
ISBN-10: 0822350858
Pagini: 400
Ilustrații: 71 photographs
Dimensiuni: 162 x 234 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.7 kg
Editura: MD – Duke University Press
Cuprins
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Pictures and Progress / Maurice O. Wallace and Shawn Michelle Smith; 1: A More Perfect Likeness: Frederick Douglass and the Image of the Nation / Laura Wexler; 2: Rightly Viewed: Theorizations of Self in Frederick Douglasss Lecture on Pictures / Ginger Hill; 3: Shadow and Substance: Sojourner Truth in Black and White / Augusta Rohrbach; Snapshot 1. Unredeemed Realities: Augustus Washington / Shawn Michelle Smith; 4: Mulatta Obscura: Camera Tactics and Linda Brent / Michael Chaney; 5: Whos Your Mama? White Mulatta Genealogies, Early Photography, and Anti-Passing Narratives of Slavery and Freedom / P. Gabrielle Foreman; 6: Out from Behind the Mask: Paul Laurence Dunbar, the Hampton Institute Camera Club, and Photographic Performance of Identity / Ray Sapirstein; Snapshot 2. Reproducing Black Masculinity: Thomas Askew / Shawn Michelle Smith; 7: Louis Agassiz and the American School of Ethnoeroticism: Polygenesis, Pornography, and Other Perfidious Influences / Suzanne Schneider; 8: Framing the Black Soldier: Image, Uplift, and the Duplicity of Pictures / Maurice O. Wallace; Snapshot 3. Unfixing the Frame(-up): A. P. Bedou / Shawn Michelle Smith; 9: Looking at Ones Self through the Eyes of Others: W. E. B. Du Boiss Photographs for the Paris Exposition of 1900 / Shawn Michelle Smith; 10: Ida B. Wells and the Shadow Archive / Leigh Raiford; Snapshot 4. The Photographers Touch: J. P. Ball / Shawn Michelle Smith; 11: No More Auction Block for Me! / Cheryl FinleyBibliography; Contributors; Index
Recenzii
With its emphasis on the often radical roles that black sitters and makers assumed in the history of photography, Pictures and Progress offers a bold approach to the study of American visual culture, one that places black agency at its center. Its intriguing and persuasive essays elucidate the importance of photography to the creation of free, black personhood in the 19th and early-20th centuries and reveal the myriad and sometimes surprising ways that such hands sought to wield the pencil of nature in an effort to assert self-possessed, and therefore revolutionary, subjectivities during an era in which the dominant culture preferred to represent them as otherwise. Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, author of Portraits of a People: Picturing African Americans in the Nineteenth CenturyPictures and Progress offers a new understanding of visual representations of black Americans in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Through its compelling essays, this work reframes the archive of images of death, beauty, and suffering of black subjects in photography. Deborah Willis, New York University
"With its emphasis on the often radical roles that black sitters and makers assumed in the history of photography, Pictures and Progress offers a bold approach to the study of American visual culture, one that places black agency at its center. Its intriguing and persuasive essays elucidate the importance of photography to the creation of free, black personhood in the 19th and early-20th centuries and reveal the myriad and sometimes surprising ways that such hands sought to wield "the pencil of nature" in an effort to assert self-possessed, and therefore revolutionary, subjectivities during an era in which the dominant culture preferred to represent them as otherwise." Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, author of Portraits of a People: Picturing African Americans in the Nineteenth Century "Pictures and Progress offers a new understanding of visual representations of black Americans in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Through its compelling essays, this work reframes the archive of images of death, beauty, and suffering of black subjects in photography." Deborah Willis, New York University
"With its emphasis on the often radical roles that black sitters and makers assumed in the history of photography, Pictures and Progress offers a bold approach to the study of American visual culture, one that places black agency at its center. Its intriguing and persuasive essays elucidate the importance of photography to the creation of free, black personhood in the 19th and early-20th centuries and reveal the myriad and sometimes surprising ways that such hands sought to wield "the pencil of nature" in an effort to assert self-possessed, and therefore revolutionary, subjectivities during an era in which the dominant culture preferred to represent them as otherwise." Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, author of Portraits of a People: Picturing African Americans in the Nineteenth Century "Pictures and Progress offers a new understanding of visual representations of black Americans in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Through its compelling essays, this work reframes the archive of images of death, beauty, and suffering of black subjects in photography." Deborah Willis, New York University
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Descriere
Brings to light the wide-ranging practices of early African American photography, as well as the effects of photography on racialized thinking