Race and reproduction in Camera Lucida -- The politics of pictorialism : another look at F. Holland Day -- The space between : Eadweard Muybridge's motion studies -- Preparing the way for the train : Andrew J. Russell -- Chansonetta Stanley Emmons's nostalgic views -- Augustus Washington and the civil contract of photography -- Afterimages : Abu Ghraib
Summary
Shawn Michelle Smith examines how the advent of photography revolutionized perception, making what was once invisible visible, while also revealing the limitations of what can be seen