1st Edition
The Photographic Invention of Whiteness The Visual Cultures of White Atlantic Worlds
By Stephanie Polsky
Copyright 2024
234 Pages
19 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
234 Pages
19 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
234 Pages
19 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Focusing on the creation of the concept of Whiteness, this study links early photographic imagery to the development and exploitation that were common in the colonial Atlantic World of the mid-to-late nineteenth century.
With the advent of the daguerreotype in the mid-nineteenth century, White European settlers could imagine themselves as a supra-national community, where the attainment of... Read more
Introduction: The Invention of a Photographic Whiteness 1. Daguerreotypes, the Vanishing Native American, and the Invention of Western Typologies 2. Mathew Brady’s Civil War, Daguerreotypes, and the Technological Redefinition of White Nationalism 3. Ain’t I a Human: Louis Agassiz’s Slave Daguerreotypes and White Scientific Voyeurism 4. How the West was Won: America at the Great Exhibition of 1851 5. The Founding of the Great White World: The Arctic Daguerreotypes 6. White Aesthetics: Daguerreotypes in the Consolidation of Colonial Empires in West Africa 7. Lewis Carroll and the Imperial Eroticisation of White Childhood 8. Material Agency: The Eames Office, Race, and US Cold War Photographic Aesthetics 9. The Apple and the Anthropocene: The Whiteness of Silicon Valley’s Digital Ecologies Conclusion: Entrepreneurs, Clients, and Images: How Photography Inserted Whiteness into a Global Visual Economy
Biography
Stephanie Polsky is a Senior Academic Program Manager at the College of Arts, Media and Design at Northeastern University.
