Pictures and Progress
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Pictures and Progress

Early Photography and the Making of African American Identity

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Pictures and Progress

Early Photography and the Making of African American Identity

About this book

Pictures and Progress explores how, during the nineteenth century and the early twentieth, prominent African American intellectuals and activists understood photography's power to shape perceptions about race and employed the new medium in their quest for social and political justice. They sought both to counter widely circulating racist imagery and to use self-representation as a means of empowerment. In this collection of essays, scholars from various disciplines consider figures including Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Ida B. Wells, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and W. E. B. Du Bois as important and innovative theorists and practitioners of photography. In addition, brief interpretive essays, or "snapshots," highlight and analyze the work of four early African American photographers. Featuring more than seventy images, Pictures and Progress brings to light the wide-ranging practices of early African American photography, as well as the effects of photography on racialized thinking.

Contributors. Michael A. Chaney, Cheryl Finley, P. Gabrielle Foreman, Ginger Hill, Leigh Raiford, Augusta Rohrbach, Ray Sapirstein, Suzanne N. Schneider, Shawn Michelle Smith, Laura Wexler, Maurice O. Wallace

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Introduction: Pictures and Progress - Maurice O. Wallace and Shawn Michelle Smith
  4. One: “A More Perfect Likeness”: Frederick Douglass and the Image of the Nation - Laura Wexler
  5. Two: “Rightly Viewed”: Theorizations of Self in Frederick Douglass’s Lectures on Pictures - Ginger Hill
  6. Three: Shadow and Substance: Sojourner Truth in Black and White - Augusta Rohrbach
  7. Snapshot 1: Unredeemed Realities: Augustus Washington - Shawn Michelle Smith
  8. Four: Mulatta Obscura: Camera Tactics and Linda Brent - Michael Chaney
  9. Five: Who’s Your Mama? “White” Mulatta Genealogies, Early Photography, and Anti-Passing Narratives of Slavery and Freedom - P. Gabrielle Foreman
  10. Six: Out from Behind the Mask: Paul Laurence Dunbar, the Hampton Institute Camera Club, and Photographic Performance of Identity - Ray Sapirstein
  11. Snapshot 2: Reproducing Black Masculinity: Thomas Askew - Shawn Michelle Smith
  12. Seven: Louis Agassiz and the American Schoolof Ethnoeroticism: Polygenesis, Pornography, and Other “Perfidious Influences” - Suzanne Schneider
  13. Eight: Framing the Black Soldier: Image, Uplift, and the Duplicity of Pictures - Maurice O. Wallace
  14. Snapshot 3: Unfixing the Frame(-up): A. P. Bedou - Shawn Michelle Smith
  15. Nine: “Looking at One’s Self through the Eyes of Others”: W. E. B. Du Bois’s Photographs for the Paris Exposition of 1900 - Shawn Michelle Smith
  16. Ten: Ida B. Wells and the Shadow Archive - Leigh Raiford
  17. Snapshot 4: The Photographer’s Touch: J. P. Ball - Shawn Michelle Smith
  18. Eleven: No More Auction Block for Me! - Cheryl Finley
  19. Bibliography
  20. Contributors
  21. Index