Stephanie Polsky

The Photographic Invention of Whiteness

The Visual Cultures of White Atlantic Worlds

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Produktbeschreibung

Focusing on the creation of the concept of whiteness, this study links early photographic imagery to the development and exploitation that was common in the colonial Atlantic World of the mid- to late-nineteenth century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 174mm
• ISBN-13: 9781032229324
• ISBN-10: 1032229322
• Artikelnr.: 72543582

Autorenporträt

Stephanie Polsky is a Senior Academic Program Manager at the College of Arts, Media and Design at Northeastern University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Invention of a Photographic Whiteness 1. Daguerreotypes,
the Vanishing Native American, and the Invention of Western Typologies 2.
Mathew Brady's Civil War, Daguerreotypes, and the Technological
Redefinition of White Nationalism 3. Ain't I a Human: Louis Agassiz's Slave
Daguerreotypes and White Scientific Voyeurism 4. How the West was Won:
America at the Great Exhibition of 1851 5. The Founding of the Great White
World: The Arctic Daguerreotypes 6. White Aesthetics: Daguerreotypes in the
Consolidation of Colonial Empires in West Africa 7. Lewis Carroll and the
Imperial Eroticisation of White Childhood 8. Material Agency: The Eames
Office, Race, and US Cold War Photographic Aesthetics 9. The Apple and the
Anthropocene: The Whiteness of Silicon Valley's Digital Ecologies
Conclusion: Entrepreneurs, Clients, and Images: How Photography Inserted
Whiteness into a Global Visual Economy