Study in Black and White : Photography, Race, Humor /

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"Explores the connections among race, visual humor, and technologies of photography in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with special attention to the reappropriation of racial humor by contemporary artists"--Provided by publisher

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sheehan, Tanya, 1976- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2018]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Photography > Social aspects.
Photography, Humorous.
Ethnic wit and humor.
PHOTOGRAPHY > History.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Imaging Systems.
PHOTOGRAPHY > Reference.
COMPUTERS > Digital Media > Photography.
Photographie > Aspect social > Histoire.
Humour ethnique > Histoire.
Photographie humoristique > Histoire.
Photography > Social aspects > History.
Ethnic wit and humor > History.
Photography, Humorous > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Strange effects and photographic pleasures : race, science, and early photography
  • The darkey photographer : camera comedy and the minstrel stage
  • Look pleasant, please! : a social history of the photographic smile
  • Writing the self through others : racial humor and the photographic postcard
  • Revival and subversion : snapshot performances from Kodak to Kara Walker.

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