Smith Shawn Michelle Smith

At the Edge of Sight (eBook, PDF)

Photography and the Unseen

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Produktbeschreibung

The advent of photography revolutionized perception, making visible what was once impossible to see with the human eye. In At the Edge of Sight, Shawn Michelle Smith engages these dynamics of seeing and not seeing, focusing attention as much on absence as presence, on the invisible as the visible. Exploring the limits of photography and vision, she asks: What fails to register photographically, and what remains beyond the frame? What is hidden by design, and what is obscured by cultural blindness? Smith studies manifestations of photography's brush with the unseen in her own photographic work and across the wide-ranging images of early American photographers, including F. Holland Day, Eadweard Muybridge, Andrew J. Russell, Chansonetta Stanley Emmons, and Augustus Washington. She concludes by showing how concerns raised in the nineteenth century remain pertinent today in the photographs of Abu Ghraib. Ultimately, Smith explores the capacity of photography to reveal what remains beyond the edge of sight.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. November 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822378266
• Artikelnr.: 54785117

Autorenporträt

Shawn Michelle Smith

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction. First Photographs 1
- Excess and Accident 21
1. Race and Reproduction in Camera Lucida 23
2. The Politics of Pictorialism: Another Look at F. Holland Day 39
- My Muybridge 73
3. The Space Between: Eadweard Muybridge's Motion Studies 75
4. Preparing the Way for the Train: Andrew J. Russell 99
- When the Train Rolls In 129
5. Chansonetta Stanley Emmons's Nostalgic Views 131
6. Augustus Washington and the Civil Contract of Photography 165
- In the Crowd 193
7. Afterimages: Abu Ghraib 195
- Untitled (Abu Graib) 213
Epilogue. A Parting Glance 215
Notes 217
Bibliography 265
Index 283