At the Edge of Sight: Photography and the Unseen
Author:   Shawn Michelle Smith
Publisher:   Duke University Press
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9780822355021


Pages:   277
Publication Date:   04 November 2013
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Shawn Michelle Smith
Publisher:   Duke University Press
Imprint:   Duke University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.522kg
ISBN:  

9780822355021


ISBN 10:   0822355027
Pages:   277
Publication Date:   04 November 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

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

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Shawn Michelle Smith is our foremost scholar of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century American photography. In this book, she engages with Benjamin's notion of the optical unconscious to think through what's at the 'edge of sight' in the work of photographers and theorists, an approach that allows her to bring together, successfully, a wide range of insights and political formations. --Elspeth Brown, author of The Corporate Eye: Photography and the Rationalization of American Commercial Culture, 1884-1929


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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).

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