Study in Black and White
Photography, Race, Humor
Seiten
2020
Pennsylvania State University Press (Verlag)
978-0-271-08111-3 (ISBN)
Pennsylvania State University Press (Verlag)
978-0-271-08111-3 (ISBN)
Explores the connections among race, visual humor, and technologies of photography in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with special attention to the reappropriation of racial humor by contemporary artists.
In this volume, Tanya Sheehan takes humor seriously in order to trace how photographic comedy was used in America and transnationally to express evolving ideas about race, black emancipation, and civil rights in the mid-1800s and into the twentieth century.
Sheehan employs a trove of understudied materials to write a new history of photography, one that encompasses the rise of the commercial portrait studio in the 1840s, the popularization of amateur photography around 1900, and the mass circulation of postcards and other photographic ephemera in the twentieth century. She examines the racial politics that shaped some of the most essential elements of the medium, from the negative-positive process to the convention of the photographic smile. The book also places historical discourses in relation to contemporary art that critiques racism through humor, including the work of Genevieve Grieves, Adrian Piper, Lorna Simpson, Kara Walker, and Fred Wilson.
By treating racial humor about and within the photographic medium as complex social commentary, rather than a collectible curiosity, Study in Black and White enriches our understanding of photography in popular culture. Transhistorical and interdisciplinary, this book will be of vital interest to scholars of art history and visual studies, critical race studies, U.S. history, and African American studies.
In this volume, Tanya Sheehan takes humor seriously in order to trace how photographic comedy was used in America and transnationally to express evolving ideas about race, black emancipation, and civil rights in the mid-1800s and into the twentieth century.
Sheehan employs a trove of understudied materials to write a new history of photography, one that encompasses the rise of the commercial portrait studio in the 1840s, the popularization of amateur photography around 1900, and the mass circulation of postcards and other photographic ephemera in the twentieth century. She examines the racial politics that shaped some of the most essential elements of the medium, from the negative-positive process to the convention of the photographic smile. The book also places historical discourses in relation to contemporary art that critiques racism through humor, including the work of Genevieve Grieves, Adrian Piper, Lorna Simpson, Kara Walker, and Fred Wilson.
By treating racial humor about and within the photographic medium as complex social commentary, rather than a collectible curiosity, Study in Black and White enriches our understanding of photography in popular culture. Transhistorical and interdisciplinary, this book will be of vital interest to scholars of art history and visual studies, critical race studies, U.S. history, and African American studies.
Tanya Sheehan is William R. Kenan Jr. Associate Professor of Art at Colby College. She is the author of Doctored: The Medicine of Photography in Nineteenth-Century America, also published by Penn State University Press.
Contents
List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Strange Effects and Photographic Pleasures: Race, Science, and Early Photography2. The Darkey Photographer: Camera Comedy and the Minstrel Stage3. Look Pleasant, Please! A Social History of the Photographic Smile4. Writing the Self Through Others: Racial Humor and the Photographic Postcard5. Revival and Subversion: Snapshot Performances from Kodak to Kara WalkerNotesSelected BibliographyIndex
| Erscheinungsdatum | 10.05.2021 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 80 Halftones, color; 12 Halftones, black and white |
| Verlagsort | University Park |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 216 x 241 mm |
| Gewicht | 975 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Fotokunst |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Fotografieren / Filmen | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-271-08111-2 / 0271081112 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-271-08111-3 / 9780271081113 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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