Photographs, histories, and meanings / edited by Marlene Kadar, Jeanne Perreault, and Linda Warley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kadar, Marlene, 1950-

Perreault, Jeanne, 1945-

Warley, Linda.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Photography--Social aspects.

Photography.

Social influence.

Social history.

Images, Photographic--History.

Images, Photographic.

History.

Physical Description:

viii, 258 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

Contents:

1 Not So Innocent: Vision and Culpability in Weegee's Photographs of Children / Caroline Blinder 9

2 Strange Birth: Reading Hands, Reflecting Race in Richard Wright's 12 Million Black Voices / Petra Dreiser 25

3 Documenting Disasters: Rothstein's "Steer Skull" and the Use of Photographic Evidence in Environmental and Political Narratives / James Hewitson 43

4 Something Is Happening: Seeing It / Jeanne Perreault 59

5 Ambivalent Image: Twisted Use / Marlene Kadar 73

6 Visualizing the Rising: Photography, Memory, and the Visual Economy of the 1916 Easter Rising / Justin Carville 91

7 The Promise of Public Housing: Photographs and the History of the Chicago Housing Authority / D. Brandford Hunt, Michael Ensdorf, Kathy M. Pilat 111

8 "More than an Observer": Emmy Andriesse, Dutch Underground Photographer / Christl Verduyn, Conny Steenman-Marcuse 139

9 Between the Officer and the Artist: Arnold Odermatt's Asethetic-Forensic Project / Thomas Stubblefield 167

10 Passionate Protest: Lynching Photography and Appropriative Counter-Performances of the Lynching Ritual / Zoe Trodd 185

11 Captured Childhoods: Photographs in Indian Residential School: Memoir / Linda Warley 201

12 Returning to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: The Tower of Faces Ten Years Later / Laura Levitt 223.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0230617700

9780230617704

OCLC:

316829365