Smith At the Edge of Sight

Photography and the Unseen
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7826-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 312 Seiten

Shawn Michelle Smith examines how the advent of photography revolutionized perception, making what was once invisible visible, while also revealing the limitations of what can be seen.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Smith, Shawn Michelle

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Fotografie Fotografie: Geschichte und Sammlungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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).