Pictures and Progress: Early Photography and the Making of African American Identity by Wallace, Maurice O.

Pictures and Progress: Early Photography and the Making of African American Identity

Pictures and Progress explores how, during the nineteenth century and the early twentieth, prominent African American intellectuals...
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Author: Maurice O. Wallace
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Language: English
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Pictures and Progress: Early Photography and the Making of African American Identity by Wallace, Maurice O.

Pictures and Progress: Early Photography and the Making of African American Identity

€67,34

Pictures and Progress: Early Photography and the Making of African American Identity

€67,34
Author: Maurice O. Wallace
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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



Author: Maurice O. Wallace
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 06/19/2012
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.55lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780822350859


Review Citation(s):
Choice 01/01/2013

About the Author

Maurice O. Wallace is Associate Professor of English and African & African American Studies at Duke University. He is the author of Constructing the Black Masculine: Identity and Ideality in African American Men's Literature and Culture, 1775-1995, also published by Duke University Press.

Shawn Michelle Smith is Associate Professor of Visual and Critical Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is the author of Photography on the Color Line: W. E. B. Du Bois, Race, and Visual Culture, also published by Duke University Press, and American Archives: Gender, Race, and Class in Visual Culture. Smith is coauthor (with Dora Apel) of Lynching Photographs.


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