Feeling Photography

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Description

This innovative collection demonstrates the profound effects of feeling on our experiences and working out of photography. It includes essays at the tactile nature of photos, the relation of photography to sentiment and intimacy, and the ways in which have an effect on pervades the photographic archive. Concerns associated with the affective turn—intimacy, alterity, and ephemerality, in addition to queerness, modernity, and loss—run in the course of the essays. On the same time, the contributions are informed by developments in crucial race theory, postcolonial studies, and feminist theory. As the contributors bring have an effect on theory to bear on photography, some interpret the work of latest artists, such as Catherine Opie, Tammy Rae Carland, Christian Boltanski, Marcelo Brodsky, Zoe Leonard, and Rea Tajiri. Others look back, whether to the work of the American Pictorialist F. Holland Day or to the discontent masked by the smiles of black families posing for cartes de visite in a Kodak marketing campaign. With more than sixty photographs, including twenty in color, this collection changes how we see, take into consideration, and feel photography, past and present.

Contributors. Elizabeth Abel, Elspeth H. Brown, Kimberly Juanita Brown, Lisa Cartwright, Lily Cho, Ann Cvetkovich, David L. Eng, Marianne Hirsch, Thy Phu, Christopher Pinney, Marlis Schweitzer, Dana Seitler, Tanya Sheehan, Shawn Michelle Smith, Leo Spitzer, Diana Taylor
 


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