Anticolonialist Photography in the Americas
Buch, Englisch, 235 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 443 g
ISBN: 978-3-030-96157-2
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
This book argues that photography, with its inherent connection to the embodied material world and its ease of transmissibility, operates as an implicitly political medium. It makes the case that the right to see is fundamental to the right to be. Limning the paradoxical links between photography as a medium and the conditions of political, social, and epistemological disappearance, the book interprets works by African American, Indigenous American, Latinx, and Asian American photographers as acts of political activism in the contemporary idiom. Placing photographic praxis at the crux of 21-century crises of political equity and sociality, the book uncovers the discursive visual movements through which photography enacts reappearances, bringing to visibility erased and elided histories in the Americas. Artists discussed in-depth include Shelley Niro, Carrie Mae Weems, Paula Luttringer, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Matika Wilbur, Martine Gutiérrez, Ana Mendieta, An-My Lê, and Rebecca Belmore. The book makes visible the American land as a site of contestation, an as-yet not fully recognized battlefield.
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1.Introduction: Photography and Disappearance.- 2.The Disappeared: Paula Luttringer’s and Rebecca Belmore’s Hauntings.- 3.Exiles: Shelley Niro and Ana Mendieta, Crossing the Water.- 4.Magazine Work: Martine Gutierrez.- 5.America’s Dirty Wars: Carrie Mae Weems and An-My Le.- 6.Drowning and Rising: Cara Romero’s Spirits.- 7.Conclusion: Revenants are Photographs.
