When Home Is a Photograph

Blackness and Belonging in the World

Leigh Raiford (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

176 Seiten

2026
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-2986-1 (ISBN)

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In When Home Is a Photograph, Leigh Raiford asks how Black people use photography to make home in the world. Raiford focuses on a selection of Black American activists and artists, including Marcus Garvey, James Van Der Zee, Eslanda Goode Robeson, and Kathleen Neal Cleaver to explore the complex relationship between racialized subjects and the medium of photography. As they traveled the world for study, for work, for pleasure, or for survival, these artists and activists took and collected photographs to express their political platforms and personal sense of self. Raiford considers the everyday image-making practices that these Black Americans employed to improve the condition of Black lives globally by imagining, identifying, inhabiting, leaving, defending, and destroying “home.” When Home Is a Photograph show how these figures did not merely utilize photography to emplace themselves in the world—they demonstrated how the use of photography is itself a way to mediate one’s relationship to the world.

Leigh Raiford is Professor of African American and African Diaspora studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Her most recent book is Collaboration: A Potential History of Photography.

When I Think of Home . . . (acknowledgments) ix
Introduction. When Home Is a Photograph 1
1. The Cynosure of the Eyes of Harlem: Marcus Garvey and James Van Der Zee in Stereograph
2. To Feel Perfectly at Home: Eslanda Robeson’s Ethnographic Lens
3. Making Home in Exile: Kathleen Cleaver’s Black Panther Family Album
4. Shelter in Place: Dawoud Bey, Sadie Barnette, and the Photography of Uncertainty
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	14.4.2026
Reihe/Serie	The Visual Arts of Africa and Its Diasporas
Zusatzinfo	50 illustrations
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	572 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Fotokunst
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4780-2986-2 / 1478029862
ISBN-13	978-1-4780-2986-1 / 9781478029861
Zustand	Neuware