Study in Black and White - Photography, Race, Humor

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.

About the author

Tanya Sheehan is William R. Kenan Jr. Associate Professor of Art at Colby College. She is the author of Doctored: The Medicine of Photography in Nineteenth-Century America, also published by Penn State University Press.

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.

Product details

• Authors: Tanya Sheehan, Tanya (William R. Kenan Sheehan
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.11.2018
• EAN: 9780271081106
• ISBN: 978-0-271-08110-6
• Dimensions: 216 mm x 241 mm x 241 mm
• Weight: 1134 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss, Raster, farbig
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), ART / History / Contemporary (1945-), PHOTOGRAPHY / History, Photography and photographs, Special kinds of photography, ART / American / African American & Black