White gaze
By: images by Michelle Dizon ; text by Việt Lê
Edition: Second edition.
Publisher: Candor
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng; ara; vie
Translated from: vie
Number of pages: 66
Subjects: Imperialism; Pictorial works; Poetry; Chauvinism and jingoism; Racism; Racism in the press; Photojournalism; Photography; Social aspects; Moral and ethical aspects; National Geographic Society (U.S.); National geographic magazine
Other titles: National geographic magazine
Description: A photobook with poetry, essay, and conversation.

"In 'White gaze', artist and filmmaker Michelle Dizon works with an archive of 'National Geographic' magazines to explore the mechanics of the 'white gaze.' Through a process of poetic subtraction, Dizon works with only the language on the original page to write a decolonial counterpoint to a way of imaging the world centered on the West. Her images lay the white gaze bare, unearth a genealogy of a racist visuality, and work in the gap between image and text to write against the grain of imperialist narratives. Artist and writer Việt Lê uses Dizon's images from White gaze as a starting point for his poetic exploration of the legacies of war and imperialism. Lê's text performs a dual work, both contextualizing Dizon's images in the history of empire and unleashing a rhythmic play with language, both visually and aurally, to cut to the core of how meaning is produced. His text speaks to absence as much as presence with a story of war and empire told in fragments, phrases, words hanging on the page--an index of both the trauma and resistance experienced by those subjected to the violence of empire."--Bookmark insert.
Notes: Edition, publication, and printing statements from colophon.

Date of publication from Sming Sming Books website.

Contributions by Waseem Kazzah dated 2019. Includes poem in Arabic?

Includes poem in Vietnamese by Lê Kim Lợi, with parallel English translation.

"This second edition of 'White gaze' includes a new introduction by Michelle Dizon and an afterword by Việt Lê. Dizon's introductory essay 'The sediment of whiteness' speaks to the way that 'National Geographic's' images have functioned and continue to function as an assertion of property and ownership, particularly as issues around appropriation and fair use have surfaced since the book's first release."--Sming Sming Books website.

Includes bibliographical references.

"CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License."--Colophon.
Table of contents: title: (mostly from captions); title: The sediment of whiteness : introduction  -- by Michelle Dizon -- Photos and poems; title: Worlds, words--the afterlives of images : a conversation  -- between Michelle Dizon and Việt Lê; title: Forget you : afterword of poems in conversation -- by Waseem Kazzah, Lê Kim Lợi, and Việt Lê-- Image list.