Photography is one of the principal filters through which we engage
the world. The contributors to this volume focus on Walter
Benjamin's concept of the optical unconscious to investigate how
photography has shaped history, modernity, perception, lived
experience, politics, race, and human agency. In essays that range
from examinations of Benjamin's and Sigmund Freud's writings to the
work of Kara Walker and Roland Barthes's famous Winter Garden
photograph, the contributors explore what photography can teach us
about the nature of the unconscious. They attend to
side perceptions, develop latent images, discover things
hidden in plain sight, focus on the disavowed, and perceive the
slow. Of particular note are the ways race and colonialism have
informed photography from its beginning. The volume also contains
photographic portfolios by Zoe Leonard, Kelly Wood, and Kristan
Horton, whose work speaks to the optical unconscious while
demonstrating how photographs communicate on their own terms. The
essays and portfolios in Photography and the Optical Unconscious
create a collective and sustained assessment of Benjamin's
influential concept, opening up new avenues for thinking about
photography and the human psyche. Contributors. Mary Bergstein,
Jonathan Fardy, Kristan Horton, Terri Kapsalis, Sarah Kofman,
Elisabeth Lebovici, Zoe Leonard, Gabrielle Moser, Mignon Nixon, Thy
Phu, Mark Reinhardt, Shawn Michelle Smith, Sharon Sliwinski, Laura
Wexler, Kelly Wood, Andrés Mario Zervigón
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