Concurrent users
Unlimited
Authorized users
Authorized users
Document Delivery Supplied
Can lend chapters, not whole ebooks
Title
The photographic uncanny : photography, homelessness, and homesickness / Claire Raymond.
ISBN
9783030284978 (electronic book)
3030284972 (electronic book)
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xi, 326 pages) : illustrations.
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-030-28 doi
Call Number
TR183
Dewey Decimal Classification
770.1
Summary
This book argues for a renewed understanding of the fundamentally uncanny quality of the medium of photography. It especially makes the case for the capacity of certain photographs--precisely through their uncanniness--to contest structures of political and social dominance. The uncanny as a quality that unsettles the perception of home emerges as a symptom of modern and contemporary society and also as an aesthetic apparatus by which some key photographs critique the hegemony of capitalist and industrialist domains. The books historical scope is large, beginning with William Henry Fox Talbot and closing with contemporary indigenous photographer Bear Allison and contemporary African American photographer Devin Allen. Through close readings, exegesis, of individual photographs and careful deployment of contemporary political and aesthetic theory, The Photographic Uncanny argues for a re-envisioning of the political capacity of photography to expose the haunted, homeless, condition of modernity.
Note
Includes index.
Access Note
Access limited to authorized users.
Source of Description
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed December 3, 2019).
1.A Political Uncanny: The Homelessness of Photographs
2.Eugene Atgets Sacred Spaces: Uncanny Capitalism
3.August Sanders Habitus
4.Walker Evanss Emotions
5.Diane Arbuss Uncanny Aura
6.Second Selves: Woodman, Meatyard, Allison
7.North American Uncanny: Shelley Niro
8.Ghosts of West Baltimore: Devin Allen
9.Conclusion: Revisiting the 18th-Century Visual Uncanny.