Feeling Photography
. Ed(S): Brown, Elspeth H.; Phu, Thy
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Description for Feeling Photography
With more than sixty photographs, including twenty in color, This innovative collection demonstrates the profound effects of feeling on our experiences and understanding of photography. It includes essays on the tactile nature of photos, the relation of photography to sentiment and intimacy, and the ways that affect pervades the photographic archive. Concerns associated with the affective turn—intimacy, alterity, and ephemerality, as well as queerness, modernity, and loss—run through the essays. At the same time, the contributions are informed by developments in critical race theory, postcolonial studies, and feminist theory. As the contributors bring affect theory to bear on photography, some interpret the work of contemporary artists, such as Catherine ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
Number of Pages
408
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822355267
SKU
V9780822355267
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Ref
99-1
About . Ed(S): Brown, Elspeth H.; Phu, Thy
Elspeth H. Brown is Associate Professor of History at the University of Toronto. She is the author of The Corporate Eye: Photography and the Rationalization of American Commercial Culture, 1884–1929. Thy Phu is Associate Professor of English at Western University in London, Ontario. She is the author of Picturing Model Citizens: Civility in Asian American Visual Culture.
Reviews for Feeling Photography
"I found it a fascinating read. To my knowledge, the book is unique in its coverage of this perspective on photography, and I would recommend this book for anyone interested in photography and visual culture on a theoretical level. Very useful for undergraduate and graduate studies in fine arts, visual culture, gender studies, and, obviously, photography."
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