Research Catalog

Title

The image of whiteness : contemporary photography and racialization / edited by Daniel C. Blight.

Publication

• London : SPBH Editions (Self Publish, Be Happy) and Art on the Underground, 2019.
• New York, N.Y. : Distributed by Artbook D.A.P.
• ©2019

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Details

Additional Authors

Blight, Daniel C.

Description

203 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 20 cm

Summary

"From the advent of early colonial photography in the 19th century to contemporary 'white savior' social-media images, photography continues to play an integral role in the maintenance of white sovereignty. As various scholars have shown, the technology of the camera is not innocent, and nor are the images it produces. In this way, the invention and continuance of the 'white race' is not just a political, social and legal phenomenon, it is also a complexly visual one. In a time of revivified fascisms, from Donald Trump to Tommy Robinson, we must attempt to locate the image of whiteness anew, so that we can better understand its nonsensical construction. What does whiteness look like, and how might we begin to trace an anti-racist history of artistic resistance that works against it? 'The Image of Whiteness' seeks to introduce its reader to some important extracts from the troubling story of whiteness, to describe its falsehoods, its paradoxes and its oppressive nature, and to highlight some of the crucial work photographic artists have done to subvert and critique its image"--Publisher's description.

Alternative Title

Image of white-ness

Subjects

• Whites > Race identity
• Race relations
• Photography > Social aspects
• Photography, Artistic
• Illustrated works
• White nationalism
• Racism
• White supremacy movements
• Portrait photography > Social aspects

Genre/Form

Illustrated works.

Note

• "Featuring Abdul Abdullah, David Birkin, Sutapa Biswas, Nancy Burson, Broomberg & Chanarin, Libita Clayton, Buck Ellison, Sophie Gabrielle, Ken Gonzales-Day, Yasmin Gunaratnam, Stacy Kranitz, Michelle Dizon & Viet Le, Nate Lewis, Agata Madejska, Richard Misrach, Kajal Nisha Patel, John Lucas & Claudia Rankine, David Roediger, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Hank Willis Thomas, Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa, George Yancy"--page 3.

Contents

The image of whiteness / Daniel C. Blight -- Plates -- Works in context -- Plate list -- The advent of whiteness / Interview with David Roediger -- The borders of whiteness / Interview with Yasmin Gunaratnam -- On blondness and whiteness / Interview with Claudia Rankine -- Picturing the invisible / Interview with Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa -- Symbolic white death / Interview with George Yancy -- Afterword / by Kiera Blakey.

Call Number

JQC 20-39

ISBN

• 9781999814496
• 1999814495

OCLC

1096471223

Title

The image of whiteness : contemporary photography and racialization / edited by Daniel C. Blight.

Publisher

London : SPBH Editions (Self Publish, Be Happy) and Art on the Underground, 2019.

Distributor

New York, N.Y. : Distributed by Artbook D.A.P.

Copyright Date

©2019

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

still image

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Added Author

Blight, Daniel C., editor.

Research Call Number

JQC 20-39