Shawn Michelle Smith

At the Edge of Sight

Photography and the Unseen

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. November 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 154mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 518g
• ISBN-13: 9780822355021
• ISBN-10: 0822355027
• Artikelnr.: 37184159

Autorenporträt

Shawn Michelle Smith

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