Photographic Invention of Whiteness - The Visual Cultures of White Atlantic Worlds

Focusing on the creation of the concept of whiteness, this study links early photographic imagery to the development and exploitation that was common in the colonial Atlantic World of the mid- to late-nineteenth century.

List of contents

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

About the author

Stephanie Polsky is a Senior Academic Program Manager at the College of Arts, Media and Design at Northeastern University.

Product details

• Authors: Stephanie (Northeastern University College Polsky, Polsky Stephanie
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.01.2025
• EAN: 9781032229324
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3222932-4
• No. of pages: 228
• Series: Routledge History of Photography
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Photography & photographs, Ethnic Studies, Sociology, The arts: general issues, ART / History / General, ART / Art & Politics, PHOTOGRAPHY / History, History of art / art & design styles, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Colonialism & imperialism, History of Art, Social and cultural anthropology, Colonialism and imperialism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Race & Ethnic Relations, Art forms, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards, Photography and photographs, The Arts: art forms, The arts: general topics, ART / History / European / Romanticism