wyszukanych pozycji: 10
At the Edge of Sight: Photography and the Unseen
ISBN: 9780822355021 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The advent of photography revolutionized perception, making visible what was once impossible to see with the human eye. In "At the Edge of Sight," Shawn Michelle Smith engages these dynamics of seeing and not seeing, focusing attention as much on absence as presence, on the invisible as the visible. Exploring the limits of photography and vision, she asks: What fails to register photographically, and what remains beyond the frame? What is hidden by design, and what is obscured by cultural blindness? Smith studies manifestations of photography's brush with the unseen in her own photographic...
The advent of photography revolutionized perception, making visible what was once impossible to see with the human eye. In "At the Edge of Sight," Sha...
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126,12 zł |
American Archives: Gender, Race, and Class in Visual Culture
ISBN: 9780691004785 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Visual texts uniquely demonstrate the contested terms of American identity. In American Archives Shawn Michelle Smith offers a bold and disturbing account of how photography and the sciences of biological racialism joined forces in the nineteenth century to offer an idea of what Americans look like--or "should" look like. Her varied sources, which include the middle-class portrait, baby picture, criminal mugshot, and eugenicist record, as well as literary, scientific, and popular texts, enable her to demonstrate how new visual paradigms posed bodily appearance as an index to... Visual texts uniquely demonstrate the contested terms of American identity. In American Archives Shawn Michelle Smith offers a bold and dist... |
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221,34 zł |
Photography on the Color Line: W. E. B. Du Bois, Race, and Visual Culture
ISBN: 9780822333432 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 225 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Through a rich interpretation of the remarkable photographs W. E. B. Du Bois compiled for the American Negro Exhibit at the 1900 Paris Exposition, Shawn Michelle Smith reveals the visual dimension of the color line that Du Bois famously called "the problem of the twentieth century." Du Bois's prize-winning exhibit consisted of three albums together containing 363 black-and-white photographs, mostly of middle-class African Americans from Atlanta and other parts of Georgia. Smith provides an extensive analysis of the images, the antiracist message Du Bois conveyed by collecting and displaying...
Through a rich interpretation of the remarkable photographs W. E. B. Du Bois compiled for the American Negro Exhibit at the 1900 Paris Exposition, Sha...
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115,59 zł |
Photographic Returns: Racial Justice and the Time of Photography
ISBN: 9781478004684 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Engaging contemporary photography by Sally Mann, Lorna Simpson, Carrie Mae Weems, and others, Shawn Michelle Smith traces how historical moments come to be known photographically and the ways in which the past continues to inhabit, punctuate, and transform the present through the photographic medium.
Engaging contemporary photography by Sally Mann, Lorna Simpson, Carrie Mae Weems, and others, Shawn Michelle Smith traces how historical moments come ...
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110,34 zł |
At the Edge of Sight: Photography and the Unseen
ISBN: 9780822354864 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The advent of photography revolutionized perception, making visible what was once impossible to see with the human eye. In At the Edge of Sight, Shawn Michelle Smith engages these dynamics of seeing and not seeing, focusing attention as much on absence as presence, on the invisible as the visible. Exploring the limits of photography and vision, she asks: What fails to register photographically, and what remains beyond the frame? What is hidden by design, and what is obscured by cultural blindness? Smith studies manifestations of photography's brush with the unseen in her own...
The advent of photography revolutionized perception, making visible what was once impossible to see with the human eye. In At the Edge of Sight...
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467,86 zł |
Photography on the Color Line: W. E. B. Du Bois, Race, and Visual Culture
ISBN: 9780822333319 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. An exploration of the visual meaning of the color line and racial politics through the analysis of archival photographs collected by W.E.B. Du Bois and exhibited at the Paris Exposition of 1900.
An exploration of the visual meaning of the color line and racial politics through the analysis of archival photographs collected by W.E.B. Du Bois an...
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446,83 zł |
Photography and the Optical Unconscious
ISBN: 9780822369011 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Photography is one of the principal filters through which we engage the world. The contributors to this volume focus on Walter Benjamin's concept of the optical unconscious to investigate how photography has shaped history, modernity, perception, lived experience, politics, race, and human agency. In essays that range from examinations of Benjamin's and Sigmund Freud's writings to the work of Kara Walker and Roland Barthes's famous Winter Garden photograph, the contributors explore what photography can teach us about the nature of the unconscious. They attend to side perceptions, develop...
Photography is one of the principal filters through which we engage the world. The contributors to this volume focus on Walter Benjamin's concept of t...
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126,12 zł |
Photography and the Optical Unconscious
ISBN: 9780822363811 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Photography is one of the principal filters through which we engage the world. The contributors to this volume focus on Walter Benjamin's concept of the optical unconscious to investigate how photography has shaped history, modernity, perception, lived experience, politics, race, and human agency. In essays that range from examinations of Benjamin's and Sigmund Freud's writings to the work of Kara Walker and Roland Barthes's famous Winter Garden photograph, the contributors explore what photography can teach us about the nature of the unconscious. They attend to side perceptions, develop...
Photography is one of the principal filters through which we engage the world. The contributors to this volume focus on Walter Benjamin's concept of t...
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499,40 zł |
Pictures and Progress: Early Photography and the Making of African American Identity
ISBN: 9780822350675 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. 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...
Pictures and Progress explores how, during the nineteenth century and the early twentieth, prominent African American intellectuals and activists unde...
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499,40 zł |
Eden Turned on Its Side
ISBN: 9780826359179 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Focusing on poetic intersections of nature and culture in relation to ecological and social imbalance, this work consists of large-scale photographic images that tend toward immersive installation, as is characteristic of much of Rubenstein's art.
Focusing on poetic intersections of nature and culture in relation to ecological and social imbalance, this work consists of large-scale photographic ...
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218,93 zł |