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Study in black and white : photography, race, humor
- Title
- Study in black and white : photography, race, humor / Tanya Sheehan.
- Author
- Sheehan, Tanya, 1976-
- Publication
- University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2018]
- ©2018
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Pennsylvania State University Press, publisher.
- Description
- xiii, 202 pages : color illustrations (facsimilies); 25 cm
- Summary
- "Explores the connections among race, visual humor, and technologies of photography in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with special attention to the reappropriation of racial humor by contemporary artists"--Provided by publisher.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Strange effects and photographic pleasures : race, science, and early photography -- The darkey photographer : camera comedy and the minstrel stage -- Look pleasant, please! : a social history of the photographic smile -- Writing the self through others : racial humor and the photographic postcard -- Revival and subversion : snapshot performances from Kodak to Kara Walker.
- Call Number
- Sc E 19-493
- ISBN
- 9780271081106
- 0271081104
- LCCN
- 2018007930
- 40028762950
- OCLC
- 1028581811
- Author
- Sheehan, Tanya, 1976- author.
- Title
- Study in black and white : photography, race, humor / Tanya Sheehan.
- Publisher
- University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2018]
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Pennsylvania State University Press, publisher.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40028762950
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 19-493