基本説明
In this collection of essays, scholars from various disciplines consider figures including Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Ida B. Wells, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and W. E. B. Du Bois as important and innovative theorists and practitioners of photography.
Full Description
Pictures and Progress explores how, during the nineteenth century and the early twentieth, prominent African American intellectuals and activists understood photography's power to shape perceptions about race and employed the new medium in their quest for social and political justice. They sought both to counter widely circulating racist imagery and to use self-representation as a means of empowerment. In this collection of essays, scholars from various disciplines consider figures including Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Ida B. Wells, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and W. E. B. Du Bois as important and innovative theorists and practitioners of photography. In addition, brief interpretive essays, or "snapshots," highlight and analyze the work of four early African American photographers. Featuring more than seventy images, Pictures and Progress brings to light the wide-ranging practices of early African American photography, as well as the effects of photography on racialized thinking.Contributors. Michael A. Chaney, Cheryl Finley, P. Gabrielle Foreman, Ginger Hill, Leigh Raiford, Augusta Rohrbach, Ray Sapirstein, Suzanne N. Schneider, Shawn Michelle Smith, Laura Wexler, Maurice O. Wallace
Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: Pictures and Progress / Maurice O. Wallace and Shawn Michelle Smith 1
1. "A More Perfect Likeness": Frederick Douglass and the Image of the Nation / Laura Wexler 18
2. "Rightly Viewed": Theorizations of the Self in Frederick Douglass's Lecture on Pictures / Ginger Hill 41
3. Shadow and Substance: Sojourner Truth in Black and White / Augusta Rohrbach 83
Snapshot 1. Unredeemed Realities: Augustus Washington / Shawn Michelle Smith 101
4. Mulatta Obscura: Camera Tactics and Linda Brent / Michael Chaney 109
5. Who's Your Mama?: "White" Mulatta Genealogies, Early Photography, and Anti-Passing Narratives of Slavery and Freedom / P. Gabrielle Foreman 132
6. Out from Behind the Mask: Paul Laurence Dunbar, the Hampton Institute Camera Club, and Photographic Performance of Identity / Ray Sapirstein 167
Snapshot 2. Reproducing Black Masculinity: Thomas Askew / Shawn Michelle Smith 204
7. Louis Agassiz and the American School of Ethnoeroticism: Polygenesis, Pornography, and Other "Perfidious Influences" / Suzanne Schneider 211
8. Framing the Black Soldier: Image, Uplift, and the Duplicity of Pictures / Maurice O. Wallace 244
Snapshot 3. Unfixing the Frame(-up): A. P. Bedou / Shawn Michelle Smith 267
9. "Looking at One's Self through the Eyes of Others": W. E. B. Du Bois's Photographs for the Paris Exposition of 1900 / Shawn Michelle Smith 274
10. Ida B. Wells and the Shadow Archive / Leigh Raiford 299
Snapshot 4. The Photographer's Touch: J. P. Ball / Shawn Michelle Smith 321
11. No More Auction Block for Me! / Cheryl Finley 329
Bibliography 349
Contributors 369
Index 373
