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Author Campt, Tina, 1964- author

Title Listening to images / Tina M. Campt
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2017
©2017

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 140 pages)
Contents Quiet soundings : the grammar of Black futurity -- Striking poses in a tense grammar : stasis and the frequency of Black refusal -- Haptic temporalities : the quiet frequency of touch -- Black futurity in the shadow of premature death
Summary Tina M. Campt explores a way of listening to photography by engaging with lost archives of state identification photographs of Afro-diasporan people taken between the late 1800s and the present, showing how to hear the quiet refusal emanating from these photos originally intended to dehumanize and police their subjects
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 15, 2017)
Subject Identification photographs.
Portrait photography -- Social aspects -- United States
Portrait photography -- Political aspects -- United States
Black people -- Portraits
Africans -- Portraits
African diaspora.
identification photographs.
PHOTOGRAPHY -- Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions -- General.
PHOTOGRAPHY -- Individual Photographers -- Artists' Books.
PHOTOGRAPHY -- Photoessays & Documentaries.
PHOTOGRAPHY -- Subjects & Themes -- General.
PHOTOGRAPHY -- Criticism.
Black people
Africans
African diaspora
Identification photographs
Portrait photography -- Social aspects
United States
Genre/Form Portraits
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2016046044
ISBN 9780822373582
0822373580