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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brown, Elspeth H., 1961-

Phu, Thy, 1975-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Photography--Social aspects.

Photography.

Emotions in art.

Visual communication in art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (424 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

With more than sixty photographs, including twenty in color, changes how we see, think about, and feel photography, past and present. 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.

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:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822377313

0822377314

OCLC:

867660775