Shawn Michelle Smith

Photographic Returns

Racial Justice and the Time of Photography

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Produktbeschreibung

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 the past continues to inhabit, punctuate, and transform the present through the photographic medium.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 442g
• ISBN-13: 9781478004684
• ISBN-10: 1478004681
• Artikelnr.: 55397502

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