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题名/责任者:

Exposing slavery : photography, human bondage, and the birth of modern visual politics in America / Matthew Fox-Amato.

出版发行项:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]

出版发行项:

?2019

ISBN:

9780190663933 (hardcover : alk. paper)

载体形态项:

xii, 343 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

个人责任者:

Fox-Amato, Matthew, author.

论题主题:

Slaves-United States-Social conditions-19th century.

论题主题:

Slaves-United States-Portraits.

论题主题:

Portrait photography-United States-History-19th century.

论题主题:

Photography-Social aspects-United States-History-19th century.

中图法分类号:

D033.1

书目附注:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-323) and index.

摘要附注:

"Within a few years of the invention of the first commercially successful photography process in 1839, American slaveholders had already begun commissioning photographic portraits of their slaves. Ex-slaves-turned-abolitionists such as Frederick Douglass also came to see how sitting for a portrait could help them project humanity and dignity amidst northern racism. In the first decade of the medium, enslaved people had begun entering southern daguerreotype saloons of their own volition, posing for cameras, and leaving with visual treasures they could keep in their pockets. And, as the Civil War raged, Union soldiers would orchestrate pictures with fugitive slaves that envisioned racial hierarchy as slavery fell. In these ways and others, photography powerfully influenced how bondage and freedom were documented, imagined, and contested. This book explores how photography altered, and was in turn shaped by, conflicts over bondage. Drawing upon an original source base that includes hundreds of unpublished and little-studied photographs of slaves, ex-slaves, and abolitionists as well as written archival materials, it puts visual culture at the center of understanding the experience of late slavery. It assesses how photography helped southerners to defend slavery, slaves to shape their social ties, abolitionists to strengthen their movement, and soldiers to imagine and pictorially enact an interracial society during the Civil War. With diverse goals, these peoples transformed photography from a scientific curiosity into a political tool. While this project sheds new light on conflicts over late American slavery, it also reveals a key moment in the much broader historical relationship between modern visual culture and racialized forms of power and resistance" --

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