UID:
edocfu_9959674036102883
Format:
1 online resource (400 p.) :
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71 photographs
ISBN:
9780822394563
Content:
Pictures and Progress explores how, during the nineteenth century and the early twentieth, prominent African American intellectuals and activists understood photography's power to shape perceptions about race and employed the new medium in their quest for social and political justice. They sought both to counter widely circulating racist imagery and to use self-representation as a means of empowerment. In this collection of essays, scholars from various disciplines consider figures including Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Ida B. Wells, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and W. E. B. Du Bois as important and innovative theorists and practitioners of photography. In addition, brief interpretive essays, or "snapshots," highlight and analyze the work of four early African American photographers. Featuring more than seventy images, Pictures and Progress brings to light the wide-ranging practices of early African American photography, as well as the effects of photography on racialized thinking.Contributors. Michael A. Chaney, Cheryl Finley, P. Gabrielle Foreman, Ginger Hill, Leigh Raiford, Augusta Rohrbach, Ray Sapirstein, Suzanne N. Schneider, Shawn Michelle Smith, Laura Wexler, Maurice O. Wallace
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Acknowledgments --
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Introduction Pictures and Progress --
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One. “A More Perfect Likeness”: Frederick Douglass and the Image of the Nation --
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Two. “Rightly Viewed”: Theorizations of Self in Frederick Douglass’s Lectures on Pictures --
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Three Shadow and Substance: Sojourner Truth in Black and White --
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Snapshot 1. Unredeemed Realities: Augustus Washington --
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Four. Mulatta Obscura: Camera Tactics and Linda Brent --
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Five. Who’s Your Mama? “White” Mulatta Genealogies, Early Photography, and Anti- Passing Narratives of Slavery and Freedom --
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Six. Out from Behind the Mask: Paul Laurence Dunbar, the Hampton Institute Camera Club, and Photographic Performance of Identity --
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Snapshot 2. Reproducing Black Masculinity: Thomas Askew --
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Seven. Louis Agassiz and the American School of Ethnoeroticism: Polygenesis, Pornography, and Other “Perfidious Influences” --
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Eight. Framing the Black Soldier: Image, Uplift, and the Duplicity of Pictures --
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Snapshot 3. Unfixing the Frame(- up): A. P. Bedou --
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Nine. “Looking at One’s Self through the Eyes of Others”: W. E. B. Du Bois’s Photographs for the Paris Exposition of 1900 --
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Ten. Ida B. Wells and the Shadow Archive --
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Snapshot 4. The Photographer’s Touch: J. P. Ball --
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Eleven. No More Auction Block for Me! --
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Bibliography --
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Contributors --
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Index
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In English.
Language:
English
Subjects:
General works
DOI:
10.1515/9780822394563
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822394563
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780822394563
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