Pictures and Progress : Early Photography and the Making of African American Identity /

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Featuring more than seventy images, Pictures and Progress brings to light the wide-ranging practices of early African American photographers, as well as the effects of photography on racialized thinking.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Smith, Shawn Michelle, 1965-, Wallace, Maurice O. (Maurice Orlando), 1967-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2012.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Afro-amerikaner.
Fotografi > sociala aspekter.
African Americans > Race identity > History > 19th century.
Photography > Social aspects > United States > History > 19th century.
Schwarze
Fotografie
Photography > Social aspects.
African Americans > Race identity.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Imaging Systems.
PHOTOGRAPHY > Reference.
COMPUTERS > Digital Media > Photography.
Noirs americains > Identite ethnique > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Photographie > Aspect social > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siecle.
USA.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: pictures and progress / Maurice Wallace and Shawn Michelle Smith
  • "A More Perfect Likeness" : Frederick Douglass and the image of the nation / Laura Wexler
  • "Rightly viewed" : theorizations of self in Frederick Douglass's lecture on pictures / Ginger Hill
  • Shadow and substance : Sojourner Truth in black and white / Augusta Rohrbach
  • Snapshot 1. unredeemed realities: Augustus Washington / Shawn Michelle Smith
  • Mulatta obscura : camera tactics and Linda Brent / Michael Chaney
  • Who's your mama? : "white" mulatta genealogies, early photography, and anti-passing narratives of slavery and freedom / P. Gabrielle Foreman
  • Out from behind the mask : Paul Laurence Dunbar, the Hampton Institute Camera Club, and photographic performance of identity / Ray Sapirstein
  • Snapshot 2. reproducing black masculinity : Thomas Askew / Shawn Michelle Smith
  • Louis Agassiz and the American school of ethnoeroticism : polygenesis, pornography, and other "perfidious influences" / Suzanne Schneider
  • Framing the black soldier : image, uplift, and the duplicity of pictures / Maurice Wallace
  • Snapshot 3. unfixing the frame( -up): A.P. Bedou / Shawn Michelle Smith
  • "Looking at one's self through the eyes of others" : W.E.B. Du Bois's photographs for the 1900 Paris Exposition / Shawn Michelle Smith
  • Ida B. Wells and the shadow archive / Leigh Raiford
  • Snapshot 4. the photographer's touch : J.P. Ball / Shawn Michelle Smith
  • No more auction block for me! / Cheryl Finley.

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