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Study in black and white : photography, race, humor / Tanya Sheehan.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, (c)2018.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 202 pages) : color illustrations (facsimilies)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780271082486
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • TR679 .S783 2018
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
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.
Subject: "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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Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE Non-fiction TR679.5 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Link to resource Available on1083671391

"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.

Includes bibliographies and index.

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.

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