Lynching Photographs

Name: Lynching Photographs
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ISBN: 9780520251526

ISBN-10: 0520251520

ISBN-13: 9780520251526

Edition: 2007

Authors: Dora Apel, Shawn Michelle Smith

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Why do we look at lynching photographs? What is the basis for our curiosity, rage, indignation, or revulsion? Beginning in the late nineteenth century, nearly five thousand blacks were put to death at the hands of lynch mobs throughout America. In many communities it was a public event, to be witnessed, recorded, and made available by means of photographs. In this book, the art historian Dora Apel and the American Studies scholar Shawn Michelle Smith examine lynching photographs as a way of analyzing photography's historical role in promoting and resisting racial violence. They further suggest how these photographs continue to affect the politics of spectatorship. In clear prose, and with…

Book details

List price: $85.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 1/5/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 110
Size: 6.25" wide x 8.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Introduction



The Evidence of Lynching Photographs



Smith Lynching Photographs and the Politics of Public Shaming



Acknowledgments


Notes


Works Cited


Index