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At the edge of sight : photography and the unseen / Shawn Michelle Smith.

e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection 2013 Available online

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Smith, Shawn Michelle, 1965-
Series:
e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Photography--Social aspects--United States.
Photography.
Photography--United States--History.
Photography, Artistic--History.
Photography, Artistic.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (320 p.)
Place of Publication:
Durham : Duke University Press, 2013.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
Shawn Michelle Smith examines how the advent of photography revolutionized perception, making what was once invisible visible, while also revealing the limitations of what can be seen.
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:
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.
ISBN:
9780822355021
0822355027
9780822378266
0822378264
OCLC:
1144915607

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