Photography and the Optical Unconscious

Herausgeber: Smith, Shawn Michelle

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Produktbeschreibung

Shawn Michelle Smith is Professor of Visual and Critical Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the 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, both also published by Duke University Press. Sharon Sliwinski is Associate Professor of Information and Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario and author of Mandela's Dark Years: A Political Theory of Dreaming and Human Rights in Camera.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 676g
• ISBN-13: 9780822363811
• ISBN-10: 082236381X
• Artikelnr.: 45329121

Autorenporträt

Shawn Michelle Smith and Sharon Sliwinski, editors

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  vii
Introduction / Shawn Michelle Smith and Sharon Sliwinski  1
1. Photography's Weimar-Era Proliferatino and Walter Benjamin's Optical
Unconscious / Andrés Mario Zervigón  32
2. "A Hiding Place in Waking Dreams": David Octavius Hill, Robert Adamson,
and Walter Benjamin's "Little History of Photography" / Shawn Michelle
Smith  48
3. Freud: The Photographic Apparatus / Sarah Kofman  75
4. "To Adopt": Freud, Photography, and the Optical Unconscious / Jonathan
Fardy  81
5. The Politics of Contemplation / Zoe Leonard and Elisabeth Lebovici  93
6. Freud, Saturn, and the Power of Hypnosis / Mary Bergstein  104
7. On the Couch / Mignon Nixon  134
8. Vision's Unseen: On Sovereignty, Race, and the Optical Unconscious /
Mark Reinhardt  174
9. Sligo Heads / Kristan Horton  223
10. Developing Historical Negatives: The Colonial Photographic Archive as
Optical Unconscious / Gabrielle Moser  229
11. The Purloined Image / Laura Wexler  264
12. The Vancouver Carts: A Brief Mémoire / Kelly Wood  281
13. Vietnamese Photography and the Look of Revolution / Thy Phu  286
14. Shooting in the Dark: A Note on the Photographic Imagination / Sharon
Sliwinski  321
15. Slow / Terri Kapsalis  339
Contributors  363
Index  367