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Shawn Michelle Smith
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.
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Engaging contemporary photography by Sally Mann, Lorna Simpson, Carrie Mae Weems, and others, Shawn Michelle Smith traces how historical moments come to be known photographically and the ways in which…
An exploration of the visual meaning of the color line and racial politics through the analysis of archival photographs collected by W.E.B. Du Bois and exhibited at the Paris Exposition…
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Visual texts demonstrate the contested terms of American identity. This book offers an account of how photography and the sciences of biological racialism joined forces in the nineteenth century to…
This volume’s contributors use Walter Benjamin’s concept of the optical unconscious to investigate how photography has shaped history, modernity, perception, lived experience, politics, race, and human agency, thereby opening up…
Dora Apel,Shawn Michelle Smith
Why do we look at lynching photographs? What is the basis for our curiosity, rage, indignation, or revulsion? This book examines lynching photographs as a way of analyzing photography’s historical…
Featuring more than seventy images, Pictures and Progress brings to light the wide-ranging practices of early African American photographers, as well as the effects of photography on racialized thinking.
Arif Khan,Meridel Rubenstein,Shawn Michelle Smith,Alan Weisman
Rubenstein’s work explores ecological and human processes across time that either reinforce or destroy the notion of Eden. Focusing on poetic intersections of nature and culture in relation to ecological…
James Meyer
A groundbreaking examination of the double in modern and contemporary art
From ancient mythology to contemporary cinema, the motif of the double-which repeats, duplicates, mirrors, inverts, splits, and reenacts-has captured…
