黒人リンチ写真のスペクタクル Lynching Photographs (Defining Moments in Photography)

Apel, Dora/ Smith, Shawn Michelle

University of California Press（2008/01発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 110 p.／サイズ 22 duotones
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780520253322
• DDC分類 779.209

基本説明

In this book, the art historian Dora Apel and the American Studies scholar Shawn Michelle Smith examine lynching photographs as a way of analyzing photography's historical role in promoting and resisting racial violence. They further suggest how these photographs continue to affect the politics of spectatorship.

Full Description

Why do we look at lynching photographs? What is the basis for our curiosity, rage, indignation, or revulsion? Beginning in the late nineteenth century, nearly five thousand blacks were put to death at the hands of lynch mobs throughout America. In many communities, it was a public event, to be witnessed, recorded, and made available by means of photographs. In this book, the art historian Dora Apel and the American Studies scholar Shawn Michelle Smith examine lynching photographs as a way of analyzing photography's historical role in promoting and resisting racial violence. They further suggest how these photographs continue to affect the politics of spectatorship. In clear prose, and with carefully chosen images, the authors chart the history of lynching photographs - their meanings, uses, and controversial display - and offer terms in which to understand our responsibilities as viewers and citizens.

Contents

Introduction Anthony W. Lee The Evidence of Lynching Photographs Shawn Michelle Smith Lynching Photographs and the Politics of Public Shaming Dora Apel Acknowledgments Notes Works Cited Index