Shawn Michelle Smith

Photographic Returns

Racial Justice and the Time of Photography

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Produktbeschreibung

Shawn Michelle Smith is Professor of Visual and Critical Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; author of At the Edge of Sight: Photography and the Unseen and Photography on the Color Line: W. E. B. Du Bois, Race, and Visual Culture;¿and coeditor of Photography and the Optical Unconscious and Pictures and Progress: Early Photography and the Making of African American Identity; all also published by Duke University Press.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9781478004073
• ISBN-10: 147800407X
• Artikelnr.: 55394818

Autorenporträt

Shawn Michelle Smith is Professor of Visual and Critical Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; author of At the Edge of Sight: Photography and the Unseen and Photography on the Color Line: W. E. B. Du Bois, Race, and Visual Culture; and coeditor of Photography and the Optical Unconscious and Pictures and Progress: Early Photography and the Making of African American Identity; all also published by Duke University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  vii
Introduction: Photographic Returns  1
1. Looking Forward and Looking Back: Rashid Johnson and Frederick Douglass
on Photography  16
2. Photographic Remains: Sally Mann at Antietam  34
3. The Scene of the Crime: Deborah Luster  61
4. Photographic Referrals: Lorna Simpson's 9 Props  93
5. Afterimages: Jason Lazarus  112
6. Photographic Reenactments: Carrie Mae Weems's Constructing History  133
7. False Returns: Taryn Simon's The Innocents  152
Coda. A Glimpse Forward: Dawoud Bey's The Birmingham Project  170
Notes  175
Bibliography  213
Index  229