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Shine : the visual economy of light in African diasporic aesthetic practice / Krista Thompson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thompson, Krista A., 1972-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mass media and culture--United States.
- Mass media and culture.
- Mass media and culture--Caribbean Area.
- Photography--Social aspects--United States.
- Photography.
- Art and popular culture.
- African diaspora.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (368 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- <div>Krista Thompson is Weinberg College Board of Visitors Professor and Associate Professor in the Department of Art History at Northwestern University. She is the author of <I>An Eye for the Tropics: Tourism, Photography, and Framing the Caribbean Picturesque</I>, also published by Duke University Press.</div>
- Contents:
- "Keeping it real" : street photography, public visibility, and Afro-modernity
- Video light : dancehall and the aesthetics of spectacular un-visibility in Jamaica
- Shine, shimmer, and splendor : African diasporic aesthetics and the art of being seen in the Bahamas
- The sound of light : reflections on art history in the visual culture of hip-hop.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780822358077
- 0822358077
- OCLC:
- 1144915593
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