The photographic invention of Whiteness : the visual cultures of White Atlantic worlds /: the visual cultures of White Atlantic worlds. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• 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.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.