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Author Smith, Shawn Michelle, 1965- author.

Title At the edge of sight : photography and the unseen / Shawn Michelle Smith
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 293 pages) : illustrations
Contents 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Photography -- Social aspects -- United States
Photography -- United States -- History
Photography, Artistic -- History
COMPUTERS -- Digital Media -- Photography.
PHOTOGRAPHY -- Reference.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Imaging Systems.
PHOTOGRAPHY -- History.
Photography
Photography, Artistic
Photography -- Social aspects
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780822378266
0822378264