In 2005, Toronto Metropolitan (formerly Ryerson) University (TMU) acquired the massive collection Black Star Collection of the photo agency previously based in New York City--nearly 292,000 black-and-white prints. Preserved at The Image Centre at TMU, the images include iconic stills of the American Civil Rights movement by Charles Moore, among thousands of ordinary photographs that were classified by theme in the agency's picture library. While the move of the collection from a corporate photo agency to a public cultural institution enables more access, researchers must still face the size of the collection, its structural organization, the materiality of the prints, and the lack of ephemera. Facing Black Star aims to fruitfully highlight this tension between research expectations and challenges.
Sprache
Verlagsort
Cambridge (Massachusetts)
USA
Verlagsgruppe
Illustrationen
Maße
Höhe: 237 mm
Breite: 187 mm
Dicke: 25 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-0-262-04784-5 (9780262047845)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Thierry Gervais is Associate Professor at the School of Image Arts and Head of Research at The Image Centre, both at Toronto Metropolitan University. He is the author, with Gaëlle Morel, of The Making of Visual News: A History of Photography in the Press, and the series editor of RIC Books, which he launched in 2016.
Vincent Lavoie is Professor of Art History at University of Quebec and a member of Figura Research Center, both in Montreal, QC. He is the author of Photojournalismes: Revoir les canons de l’image de presse and L’Affaire Capa: Le procès d’une icône and the editor of La preuve par l’image.
Foreword xi
Donia Popescu
Introduction 1
Thierry Gervais and Vincent Lavoie
A Chronology of the Black Star Publishing Company and the Black Star Collection 43
Alexandra Gooding and Valerie Matteau
Part 1: Questioning the Origins of the Black Star Collection
Suitcases, Stamps, and Paper: Piecing Together the Story of Black Star's Nazi Photographys 67
Nadya Bair
Dismantling Photographic Authorship: The Many Voices of Max Pohly's "German History" in the Black Star Collection 93
Christian Joschke
The Making of the Black Star Collection at The Image Centre: Framing the Move form a Commercial Entity to a Cultural Institution and the Conundrum of Outstanding Significance/National Importance 119
Zainub Verjee and Emily McKibbon
Part 2: Generating Visibilities in the Black Star Collection
Black Star: Gay Rights, Gay Life 143
Sophie Hackett
"Smile / Social Issues / Swing": Bias and Contradiction in Evolving Archival Descriptions of Indigenous Subjects 167
Reilley Bishop-Stall
"Caribbean Misc.": Finding the Caribbean in the Black Star Collection 189
Alexandra Gooding
Telling on Archival Erasure: The Stories Behind Griffith Davis's Liberia Photographs 213
Drew Thompson
Picturing Wild Style: Martha Cooper, Black Star, and New York's Underground 237
Vanessa Fleet Lakewood
Part 3: Curating with the Black Star Collection
Getting to Know the Unknowable: Black Star and the Rudolph P. Bratty Family Collection 261
Denise Birkhofer
Reflections on Human Rights Human Wrongs 279
Mark Sealy in Conversation with Taous Dahmani
Speculating on the Visual Archive of Climate Change 301
Benedicte Ramade
Afterword 331
Paul Roth
Notes on Contributors 338
Index 345
