Photographic Returns

Racial Justice and the Time of Photography

Shawn Michelle Smith (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

277 Seiten

2020
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-0407-3 (ISBN)

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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.

Shawn Michelle Smith is Professor of Visual and Critical Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; author of At the Edge of Sight: Photography and the Unseen and Photography on the Color Line: W. E. B. Du Bois, Race, and Visual Culture; and coeditor of Photography and the Optical Unconscious and Pictures and Progress: Early Photography and the Making of African American Identity; all also published by Duke University Press.

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: Photographic Returns 1
1. Looking Forward and Looking Back: Rashid Johnson and Frederick Douglass on Photography 16
2. Photographic Remains: Sally Mann at Antietam 34
3. The Scene of the Crime: Deborah Luster 61
4. Photographic Referrals: Lorna Simpson's 9 Props 93
5. Afterimages: Jason Lazarus 112
6. Photographic Reenactments: Carrie Mae Weems's Constructing History 133
7. False Returns: Taryn Simon's The Innocents 152
Coda. A Glimpse Forward: Dawoud Bey's The Birmingham Project 170
Notes 175
Bibliography 213
Index 229

Erscheinungsdatum	07.01.2020
Zusatzinfo	75 illustrations, incl.19 in color
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	590 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Fotokunst
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
ISBN-10	1-4780-0407-X / 147800407X
ISBN-13	978-1-4780-0407-3 / 9781478004073
Zustand	Neuware