Pictures and Progress

Early Photography and the Making of African American Identity

Bibliographic Data

ID23161211
EditorsMaurice O Wallace, Shawn Michelle Smith (0000-0003-3556-989X)
Year2012
Pages400
Publication date2012-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenuePictures and Progress (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/9780822394563
OpenAlexW621736356
Open LibraryOL29657829M
ISBN9780822394563
LanguageEN
Citations received12

Acknowledgments vii Introduction: Pictures and Progress / Maurice O. Wallace and Shawn Michelle Smith 1 1. A More Perfect Likeness: Frederick Douglass and the Image of the Nation / Laura Wexler 18 2. Rightly Viewed: Theorizations of the Self in Frederick Douglass's Lecture on Pictures / Ginger Hill 41 3. Shadow and Substance: Sojourner Truth in Black and / Augusta Rohrbach 83 Snapshot 1. Unredeemed Realities: Augustus Washington / Shawn Michelle Smith 101 4. Mulatta Obscura: Camera Tactics and Linda Brent / Michael Chaney 109 5. Who's Your Mama?: White Mulatta Genealogies, Early Photography, and Anti-Passing Narratives of Slavery and Freedom / P. Gabrielle Foreman 132 6. Out from Behind the Mask: Paul Laurence Dunbar, the Hampton Institute Camera Club, and Photographic Performance of Identity / Ray Sapirstein 167 Snapshot 2. Reproducing Black Masculinity: Thomas Askew / Shawn Michelle Smith 204 7. Louis Agassiz and the American School of Ethnoeroticism: Polygenesis, Pornography, and Other Perfidious Influences / Suzanne Schneider 211 8. Framing the Black Soldier: Image, Uplift, and the Duplicity of Pictures / Maurice O. Wallace 244 Snapshot 3. Unfixing the Frame(-up): A. P. Bedou / Shawn Michelle Smith 267 9. Looking at One's Self through the Eyes of Others: W. E. B. Du Bois's Photographs for the Paris Exposition of 1900 / Shawn Michelle Smith 274 10. Ida B. Wells and the Shadow Archive / Leigh Raiford 299 Snapshot 4. The Photographer's Touch: J. P. Ball / Shawn Michelle Smith 321 11. No More Auction Block for Me! / Cheryl Finley 329 Bibliography 349 Contributors 369 Index 373

Art · Art history · Cartography · Club · Framing (construction) · Literature · Narrative · Performance art · Snapshot (computer storage) · History · Photography and Visual Culture