Thierry Gervais, Vincent Lavoie

Facing Black Star

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In 2005, Toronto Metropolitan (formerly Ryerson) University (TMU) acquired the massive collection Black Star Collection of the photo agency previously based in New York City--nearly 292,000 black-and-white prints. Preserved at The Image Centre at TMU, the images include iconic stills of the American Civil Rights movement by Charles Moore, among thousands of ordinary photographs that were classified by theme in the agency's picture library. While the move of the collection from a corporate photo agency to a public cultural institution enables more access, researchers must still face the size of the collection, its structural organization, the materiality of the prints, and the lack of ephemera. Facing Black Star aims to fruitfully highlight this tension between research expectations and challenges.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: MIT Press Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juni 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 187mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 1040g
• ISBN-13: 9780262047845
• ISBN-10: 0262047845
• Artikelnr.: 66227120

Autorenporträt

edited by Thierry Gervais and Vincent Lavoie

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword xi
Donia Popescu
Introduction 1
Thierry Gervais and Vincent Lavoie
A Chronology of the Black Star Publishing Company and the Black Star
Collection 43
Alexandra Gooding and Valerie Matteau
Part 1: Questioning the Origins of the Black Star Collection 
Suitcases, Stamps, and Paper: Piecing Together the Story of Black Star's
Nazi Photographys 67
Nadya Bair
Dismantling Photographic Authorship: The Many Voices of Max Pohly's "German
History" in the Black Star Collection 93
Christian Joschke
The Making of the Black Star Collection at The Image Centre: Framing the
Move form a Commercial Entity to a Cultural Institution and the Conundrum
of Outstanding Significance/National Importance 119
Zainub Verjee and Emily McKibbon
Part 2: Generating Visibilities in the Black Star Collection
Black Star: Gay Rights, Gay Life 143
Sophie Hackett
"Smile / Social Issues / Swing": Bias and Contradiction in Evolving
Archival Descriptions of Indigenous Subjects 167
Reilley Bishop-Stall
"Caribbean Misc.": Finding the Caribbean in the Black Star Collection 189
Alexandra Gooding
Telling on Archival Erasure: The Stories Behind Griffith Davis's Liberia
Photographs 213
Drew Thompson
Picturing Wild Style: Martha Cooper, Black Star, and New York's Underground
237
Vanessa Fleet Lakewood
Part 3: Curating with the Black Star Collection
Getting to Know the Unknowable: Black Star and the Rudolph P. Bratty Family
Collection 261
Denise Birkhofer
Reflections on Human Rights Human Wrongs 279
Mark Sealy in Conversation with Taous Dahmani
Speculating on the Visual Archive of Climate Change 301
Benedicte Ramade
Afterword 331
Paul Roth
Notes on Contributors 338
Index 345