At the Edge of Sight: Photography and the Unseen - Couverture souple

Smith, Shawn Michelle

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0822355027 ISBN 13 : 9780822355021

Editeur : Duke University Press, 2013

Synopsis

The advent of photography revolutionized perception, making visible what was once impossible to see with the human eye. In At the Edge of Sight, Shawn Michelle Smith engages these dynamics of seeing and not seeing, focusing attention as much on absence as presence, on the invisible as the visible. Exploring the limits of photography and vision, she asks: What fails to register photographically, and what remains beyond the frame? What is hidden by design, and what is obscured by cultural blindness? Smith studies manifestations of photography's brush with the unseen in her own photographic work and across the wide-ranging images of early American photographers, including F. Holland Day, Eadweard Muybridge, Andrew J. Russell, Chansonetta Stanley Emmons, and Augustus Washington. She concludes by showing how concerns raised in the nineteenth century remain pertinent today in the photographs of Abu Ghraib. Ultimately, Smith explores the capacity of photography to reveal what remains beyond the edge of sight.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Duke University Press
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0822355027
• ISBN 13: 9780822355021
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 312
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• Personne responsable: non disponible