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Study in Black and White - Photography, Race, Humor (Hardcover)
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Study in Black and White - Photography, Race, Humor (Hardcover)
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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.
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