Shawn Michelle Smith: 2 books
Photography on the Color Line
W. E. B. Du Bois, Race, and Visual Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2004
Through a rich interpretation of the remarkable photographs W. E. B. Du Bois compiled for the American Negro Exhibit at the 1900 Paris Exposition, Shawn Michelle Smith reveals the visual dimension of the color line that Du Bois famously called “the problem of the twentieth century.” Du Bois’s...
At the Edge of Sight
Photography and the Unseen
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
The advent of photography revolutionized perception, making visible what was once impossible to see with the human eye. In At the Edge of Sight, Shawn Michelle Smith engages these dynamics of seeing and not seeing, focusing attention as much on absence as presence, on the invisible as the visible....