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At the edge of sight : photography and the unseen / Shawn Michelle Smith.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smith, Shawn Michelle, 1965- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Photography--Social aspects--United States.
- Photography.
- Photography--United States--History.
- Photography--Social aspects.
- United States.
- History.
- Photography, Artistic--History.
- Photography, Artistic.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 293 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2013.
- Summary:
- The advent of photography revolutionized perception, making visible what was once impossible to see with the human eye. In At the Edge of Sight, Shawn Michelle Smith engages these dynamics of seeing and not seeing, focusing attention as much on absence as presence, on the invisible as the visible. Exploring the limits of photography and vision, she asks: What fails to register photographically, and what remains beyond the frame? What is hidden by design, and what is obscured by cultural blindness? Smith studies manifestations of photography's brush with the unseen in her own photographic work and across the wide-ranging images of early American photographers, including F. Holland Day, Eadweard Muybridge, Andrew J. Russell, Chansonetta Stanley Emmons, and Augustus Washington. She concludes by showing how concerns raised in the nineteenth century remain pertinent today in the photographs of Abu Ghraib. Ultimately, Smith explores the capacity of photography to reveal what remains beyond the edge of sight. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Race and reproduction in Camera Lucida
- The politics of pictorialism : another look at F. Holland Day
- The space between : Eadweard Muybridge's motion studies
- Preparing the way for the train : Andrew J. Russell
- Chansonetta Stanley Emmons's nostalgic views
- Augustus Washington and the civil contract of photography
- Afterimages : Abu Ghraib.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-282) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780822354864
- 0822354861
- 9780822355021
- 0822355027
- OCLC:
- 825047371
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