Brown / Phu Feeling Photography

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7731-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 408 Seiten

With more than sixty photographs, including twenty in color, changes how we see, think about, and feel photography, past and present. It includes essays on the tactile nature of photos, the relation of photography to sentiment and intimacy, and the ways that affect pervades the photographic archive.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brown, Elspeth H.

Phu, Thy

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies: Homosexualität, LGBTQ+
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Fotografie Fotografie: Geschichte und Sammlungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction / Elspeth H. Brown and Thy Phu 1

Part I. Touchy-Feely

1. Photography between Desire and Grief: Roland Barthes and F. Holland Day / Shawn Michelle Smith 29

2. Making Sexuality Sensible: Tammy Rae Carland's and Catherine Opie's Queer Aesthetic Forms / Dana Seitler 47

3. Sepia Mutiny: Colonial Photography and Its Others in India / Christopher Pinney 71

4. Skin, Flesh, and the Affective Wrinkles of Civil Rights Photography / Elizabeth Abel 93

Part II. Intimacy and Sentiment

5. Looking Pleasant, Feeling White: The Social Politics of the Photographic Smile / Tanya Sheehan 127

6. Anticipating Citizenship: Chinese Head Tax Photographs / Lily Cho 159

7. Regarding the Pain of the Other: Photography, Famine, and the Transference of Affect / Kimberly Juanita Brown 181

8. Accessible Feelings, Modern Looks: Irene Castle, Ira L. Hill, and Broadway's Affective Economy / Marlis Schweitzer 204

Part III. Affective Archives

9. Trauma in the Archive / Diana Taylor 239

10. School Photos and Their Afterlives / Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer 252

11. Photographing Objects as Queer Archival Practice / Ann Cvetkovich 273

12. Topographies of Feeling: On Catherine Opie's American Football Landscapes / Lisa Cartwright 297

13. The Feeling of Photography, the Feeling of Kinship / David L. Eng 325

Epilogue / Thy Phu and Elspeth H. Brown 349

Bibliography 357

Contributors 385

Index 389

Über Autor(innen)

Elspeth H. Brown is Associate Professor of History at the University of Toronto. She is the author of The Corporate Eye: Photography and the Rationalization of American Commercial Culture, 1884–1929.

Thy Phu is Associate Professor of English at Western University in London, Ontario. She is the author of Picturing Model Citizens: Civility in Asian American Visual Culture.