Listening to images / Tina M. Campt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Campt, Tina, 1964- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Identification photographs.

Portrait photography--Social aspects--United States.

Portrait photography.

Portrait photography--Political aspects--United States.

Black people--Portraits.

Black people.

Africans--Portraits.

Africans.

African diaspora.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (141 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2017.

Summary:

"In Listening to Images Tina M. Campt explores a way of listening closely to photography, engaging with lost archives of historically dismissed photographs of black subjects taken throughout the black diaspora. Engaging with photographs through sound, Campt looks beyond what one usually sees and attunes her senses to the other affective frequencies through which these photographs register. She hears in these photos—which range from late nineteenth-century ethnographic photographs of rural African women and photographs taken in an early twentieth-century Cape Town prison to postwar passport photographs in Birmingham, England and 1960s mug shots of the Freedom Riders—a quiet intensity and "idian practices of refusal. Originally intended to dehumanize, police, and restrict their subjects, these photographs convey the softly buzzing tension of colonialism, the low hum of resistance and subversion, and the anticipation and performance of a future that has yet to happen. Engaging with discourses of fugitivity, black futurity, and black feminist theory, Campt takes these tools of colonialism and repurposes them, hearing and sharing their moments of refusal, rupture, and imagination."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1 Quiet soundings : the grammar of Black futurity

2 Striking poses in a tense grammar : stasis and the frequency of Black refusal

3 Haptic temporalities : the quiet frequency of touch

Coda. Black futurity in the shadow of premature death.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780822373582 (electronic book)

9780822362708

0822362708

OCLC:

1140736619