Smith Shawn Michelle Smith

Photographic Returns (eBook, PDF)

Racial Justice and the Time of Photography

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In Photographic Returns Shawn Michelle Smith traces how historical moments of racial crisis come to be known photographically and how the past continues to inhabit, punctuate, and transform the present through the photographic medium in contemporary art. Smith engages photographs by Rashid Johnson, Sally Mann, Deborah Luster, Lorna Simpson, Jason Lazarus, Carrie Mae Weems, Taryn Simon, and Dawoud Bey, among others. Each of these artists turns to the past-whether by using nineteenth-century techniques to produce images or by re-creating iconic historic photographs-as a way to use history to negotiate the present and to call attention to the unfinished political project of racial justice in the United States. By interrogating their use of photography to recall, revise, and amplify the relationship between racial politics of the past and present, Smith locates a temporal recursivity that is intrinsic to photography, in which images return to haunt the viewer and prompt reflection on the present and an imagination of a more just future.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781478005537
• Artikelnr.: 66282406

Autorenporträt

Shawn Michelle Smith

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