Title: Study in black and white : photography, race, humor /
Authors: Sheehan, Tanya, 1976-; Pennsylvania State University Press
Year: 2018
Subjects: Photography, Humorous History.; Ethnic wit and humor History.; Photography Social aspects History.; Ethnic wit and humor; Photography, Humorous; Photography Social aspects
Abstract: "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"--Provided by publisher.
Contents: Strange effects and photographic pleasures : race, science, and early photography -- The darkey photographer : camera comedy and the minstrel stage -- Look pleasant, please! : a social history of the photographic smile -- Writing the self through others : racial humor and the photographic postcard -- Revival and subversion : snapshot performances from Kodak to Kara Walker.