ISBN:
9781478005537
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (ix, 236 Seiten)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Smith, Shawn Michelle, 1965 - Photographic returns
DDC:
779.93058
Keywords:
Photography in ethnology History
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Documentary photography History
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Art and photography
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Photography in historiography
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Photography Social aspects
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History
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Art and history
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Photography in ethnology-United States-History
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Electronic books
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USA
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Dokumentarfotografie
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Ethnologie
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Rasse
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Rassenfrage
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Fotografie
Abstract:
In Photographic Returns Shawn Michelle Smith traces how historical moments of racial crisis come to be known photographically and how the past continues to inhabit, punctuate, and transform the present through the photographic medium in contemporary art. Smith engages photographs by Rashid Johnson, Sally Mann, Deborah Luster, Lorna Simpson, Jason Lazarus, Carrie Mae Weems, Taryn Simon, and Dawoud Bey, among others. Each of these artists turns to the past—whether by using nineteenth-century techniques to produce images or by re-creating iconic historic photographs—as a way to use history to negotiate the present and to call attention to the unfinished political project of racial justice in the United States. By interrogating their use of photography to recall, revise, and amplify the relationship between racial politics of the past and present, Smith locates a temporal recursivity that is intrinsic to photography, in which images return to haunt the viewer and prompt reflection on the present and an imagination of a more just future.
DOI:
10.1215/9781478005537
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/9781478005537
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478005537
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781478005537
URL:
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