The photographic invention of Whiteness : the visual cultures of White Atlantic worlds /: the visual cultures of White Atlantic worlds. (2023)
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- The photographic invention of Whiteness : the visual cultures of White Atlantic worlds /: the visual cultures of White Atlantic worlds. (2023)
- Main Title:
- The photographic invention of Whiteness : the visual cultures of White Atlantic worlds
- Further Information:
- Note: Stephanie Polsky.
- Authors:
- Polsky, Stephanie
- Contents:
- Introduction: The Invention of a Photographic Whiteness 1. Daguerreotypes, the Vanishing Native American, and the Invention of Western Typologies 2. Mathew Brady’s Civil War, Daguerreotypes, and the Technological Redefinition of White Nationalism 3. Ain’t I a Human: Louis Agassiz’s Slave Daguerreotypes and White Scientific Voyeurism 4. How the West was Won: America at the Great Exhibition of 1851 5. The Founding of the Great White World: The Arctic Daguerreotypes 6. White Aesthetics: Daguerreotypes in the Consolidation of Colonial Empires in West Africa 7. Lewis Carroll and the Imperial Eroticisation of White Childhood 8. Material Agency: The Eames Office, Race, and US Cold War Photographic Aesthetics 9. The Apple and the Anthropocene: The Whiteness of Silicon Valley’s Digital Ecologies Conclusion: Entrepreneurs, Clients, and Images: How Photography Inserted Whiteness into a Global Visual Economy
- Edition:
- 1st
- Publisher Details:
- London : Routledge
- Publication Date:
- 2023
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (264 pages), illustrations (black and white)
- Subjects:
- 779
Photography -- America -- Influence -- History
Photography -- Social aspects -- America -- History
Daguerreotype -- America -- History
White privilege (Social structure) -- America -- History
Stereotypes (Social psychology) in art
White people in popular culture -- America -- History - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781000914702
9781000914658 - Related ISBNs:
- 9781032227344
- Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- British Library HMNTS - ELD.DS.793828
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