Feeling photography / Elspeth H. Brown and Thy Phu, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brown, Elspeth H., 1961- editor.

Phu, Thy, 1975- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Photography--Social aspects.

Photography.

Emotions in art.

Visual communication in art.

Physical Description:

viii, 397 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Durham [North Carolina] : Duke University Press, 2014.

Summary:

This innovative collection demonstrates the profound effects of feeling on our experiences and understanding of photography. It includes essays on the tactile nature of photos, the relation of photography to sentiment and intimacy, and the ways that affect pervades the photographic archive. Concerns associated with the affective turn-intimacy, alterity, and ephemerality, as well as queerness, modernity, and loss-run through the essays. At the same time, the contributions are informed by developments in critical race theory, postcolonial studies, and feminist theory. As the contributors bring affect theory to bear on photography, some interpret the work of contemporary artists, such as Catherine Opie, Tammy Rae Carland, Christian Boltanski, Marcelo Brodsky, Zoe Leonard, and Rea Tajiri. Others look back, whether to the work of the American Pictorialist F. Holland Day or to the discontent masked by the smiles of black families posing for cartes de visite in a Kodak marketing campaign. With more than sixty photographs, including twenty in color, this collection changes how we see, think about, and feel photography, past and present. Book jacket.

Contents:

Photography between desire and grief : Roland Barthes and F. Holland Day / Shawn Michelle Smith

Making sexuality sensible : Tammy Rae Carland's and Catherine Opie's queer aesthetic forms / Dana Seitler

Sepia mutiny : colonial photography and its others in India / Christopher Pinney

Skin, flesh, and the affective wrinkles of civil rights photography / Elizabeth Abel

Looking pleasant, feeling white : the social politics of the photographic smile / Tanya Sheehan

Anticipating citizenship : Chinese head tax photographs / Lily Cho

Regarding the pain of the other : photography, famine, and the transference of affect / Kimberly Juanita Brown

Accessible feelings, modern looks : Irene Castle, Ira L. Hill, and Broadway's affective economy / Marlis Schweitzer

Trauma in the archive / Diana Taylor

School photos and their afterlives / Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer

Photographing objects as queer archival practice / Ann Cvetkovich

Topographies of feeling: on Catherine Opie's American football landscapes / Lisa Cartwright

The feeling of photography, the feeling of kinship / David L. Eng.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780822355267

0822355264

9780822355410

0822355418

OCLC:

846889374

Publisher Number:

40023551812