Photographs, histories, and meanings
By: edited by Marlene Kadar, Jeanne Perreault, and Linda Warley
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780230617704
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Ambiguities, distortions, shifts / Marlene Kadar, Jeanne Perreault, and Linda Warley; title: Not so innocent : vision and culpability in Weegee's photographs of children / Caroline Blinder; title: Strange birth : reading hands, reflecting race in Richard Wright's 12 million Black voices / Petra Dreiser; title: Documenting disasters : Rothstein's "steer skull" and the use of photographic evidence in environmental and political narratives / James Hewitson; title: Something is happening : seeing it / Jeanne Perreault; title: Ambivalent image : twisted use / Marlene Kadar; title: Visualizing the rising : photography, memory, and the visual economy of the 1916 Easter rising / Justin Carville; title: The promise of public housing : photographs and the history of the Chicago Housing Authority / D. Bradford Hunt, Michael Ensdorf, and Kathy M. Pilat; title: "More than an observer" : Emmy Andriesse, Dutch underground photographer / Christl Verduyn and Conny Steenman-Marcuse; title: Between the officer and the artist : Arnold Odermatt's aesthetic-forensic project / Thomas Stubblefield; title: Passionate protest : lynching photography and appropriative counter-performances of the lynching ritual / Zoe Trodd; title: Captured childhoods : photographs in Indian residential school memoir / Linda Warley; title: Returning to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum : the tower of faces ten years later / Laura Levitt.