Photographic Returns: Racial Justice and the Time of Photography

by Shawn Michelle Smith

Book Overview

In Photographic Returns Shawn Michelle Smith traces how historical moments of racial crisis come to be known photographically and how the past continues to inhabit, punctuate, and transform the present through the photographic medium in contemporary art. Smith engages photographs by Rashid Johnson, Sally Mann, Deborah Luster, Lorna Simpson, Jason Lazarus, Carrie Mae Weems, Taryn Simon, and Dawoud Bey, among others. Each of these artists turns...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478004681
• ISBN13: 9781478004684
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"