Sheehan, Tanya,  1976- <br/><br/>
Study in black and white :  photography, race, humor / 
Tanya Sheehan. 
 - University Park, Pennsylvania :  The Pennsylvania State University Press,  (c)2018. 
 - 1 online resource (xiii, 202 pages) :  color illustrations (facsimilies). 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>Strange effects and photographic pleasures : race, science, and early photography --  The darkey photographer : camera comedy and the minstrel stage --  Look pleasant, please! : a social history of the photographic smile --  Writing the self through others : racial humor and the photographic postcard --  Revival and subversion : snapshot performances from Kodak to Kara Walker. 
<br/><br/> "Explores the connections among race, visual humor, and technologies of photography in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with special attention to the reappropriation of racial humor by contemporary artists"--Provided by publisher. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780271082486 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Photography, Humorous--History.<br/>Ethnic wit and humor--History.<br/>Photography--Social aspects--History.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>TR679  / .S783 2018