At the Edge of Sight
Photography and the Unseen
1st Edition
Published on 4. November 2013
312 pages
978-0-8223-7826-6 (ISBN)
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Shawn Michelle Smith examines how the advent of photography revolutionized perception, making what was once invisible visible, while also revealing the limitations of what can be seen.
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Shawn Michelle Smith is Associate Professor of Visual and Critical Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is the author of Photography on the Color Line: W. E. B. Du Bois, Race, and Visual Culture (also published by Duke University Press) and American Archives: Gender, Race, and Class in Visual Culture; coauthor of Lynching Photographs; and coeditor of Pictures and Progress: Early Photography and the Making of African American Identity (also published by Duke University Press).
Content
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
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
