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Title: American Archives by Shawn Michelle Smith ISBN: 0-691-00478-1 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 29 November, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $20.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: Smart, clear, and original
Comment: This is a great book. Smith connects changes in the construction of class, gender, and race, to developments in photography. She links the invention and popularization of the daguerrotype to the emergence of the middle class, specifically to the way this class constructed its women as private and its men as protective of that privacy and privileged in their access to it. And she links later developments to the emergence of biological theories of race that, again, bolstered the construction of middle-class in terms of "whiteness." The chapters alternate between discussions of particular photographic archives and works of American literature; each one is astonishingly concise. There is a particularly charming chapter on family albums, early baby-photograph contests, and the explicit links both had to race science, which will make contemporary readers think twice about their own Kodak Moments.
Though the book is intended for an academic audience and offers a major contribution to studies in nineteenth-century literature and visual culture, feminist and critical race theory, it also offers a great deal to non-academics who are interested in the history of the middle class, gender and race in photography, and the relationship between photography and literature.
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Title: The Burden of Representation: Essays on Photographies and Histories by John Tagg ISBN: 0816624054 Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr (Txt) Pub. Date: September, 1993 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Suspensions of Perception: Attention, Spectacle, and Modern Culture (October Books) by Jonathan Crary ISBN: 0262531992 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Hiding (Religion and Postmodernism) by Mark C. Taylor, Jack Miles ISBN: 0226791599 Publisher: University of Chicago Press (Trd) Pub. Date: October, 1997 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Image Politics: The New Rhetoric of Environmental Activism by Kevin Michael DeLuca ISBN: 1572304618 Publisher: Guilford Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: New Social Movements: From Ideology to Identity by Enrique Larana, Hank Johnston, Joseph R. Gusfield ISBN: 1566391873 Publisher: Temple Univ Press Pub. Date: September, 1994 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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