At the Edge of Sight: Photography and the Unseen by Smith, Shawn Michelle

At the Edge of Sight: Photography and the Unseen (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780822355021)

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At the Edge of Sight: Photography and the Unseen by Smith, Shawn Michelle

At the Edge of Sight: Photography and the Unseen

$40.00
At the Edge of Sight: Photography and the Unseen by Smith, Shawn Michelle

At the Edge of Sight: Photography and the Unseen

$40.00
Format: Paperback
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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 work and across the wide-ranging images of early American photographers, including F. Holland Day, Eadweard Muybridge, Andrew J. Russell, Chansonetta Stanley Emmons, and Augustus Washington. She concludes by showing how concerns raised in the nineteenth century remain pertinent today in the photographs of Abu Ghraib. Ultimately, Smith explores the capacity of photography to reveal what remains beyond the edge of sight.

Author: Shawn Michelle Smith
ISBN-10: 0822355027
ISBN-13: 9780822355021
Publisher: Duke University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/04/2013
Pages: 312
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.70d

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Choice 05/01/2014
By Shawn Michelle Smith
By Shawn Michelle Smith
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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; coauthor of Lynching Photographs; and coeditor of Pictures and Progress: Early Photography and the Making of African American Identity (also published by Duke University Press).

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