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Photography and Resistance

Photography and Resistance Anticolonialist Photography in the Americas

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Publisher's Synopsis

This book argues that photography, with its inherent connection to the embodied material world and its ease of transmissibility, operates as an implicitly political medium. It makes the case that the right to see is fundamental to the right to be. Limning the paradoxical links between photography as a medium and the conditions of political, social, and epistemological disappearance, the book interprets works by African American, Indigenous American, Latinx, and Asian American photographers as acts of political activism in the contemporary idiom. Placing photographic praxis at the crux of 21st-century crises of political equity and sociality, the book uncovers the discursive visual movements through which photography enacts reappearances, bringing to visibility erased and elided histories in the Americas. Artists discussed in-depth include Shelley Niro, Carrie Mae Weems, Paula Luttringer, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Matika Wilbur, Martine Gutiérrez, Ana Mendieta, An-My Lê, and Rebecca Belmore. The book makes visible the American land as a site of contestation, an as-yet not fully recognized battlefield.

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Book information

ISBN: 9783030961572
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Pub date:
DEWEY: 770.973
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 235
Weight: 457g
Height: 210mm
Width: 148mm
Spine width: 16mm