Description
Book SynopsisWith more than sixty photographs, including twenty in color, changes how we see, think about, and feel photography, past and present. It includes essays on the tactile nature of photos, the relation of photography to sentiment and intimacy, and the ways that affect pervades the photographic archive.
Trade Review"I found it a fascinating read. To my knowledge, the book is unique in its coverage of this perspective on photography, and I would recommend this book for anyone interested in photography and visual culture on a theoretical level. Very useful for undergraduate and graduate studies in fine arts, visual culture, gender studies, and, obviously, photography." -- Sandra Cowan * ARLIS/NA Reviews *
"The collection offers some very useful ways of thinking about the emerging field of affect theory and its applications to the broad domain of photography. … [Brown and Phu's] anthology … substantially broadens the terrain beyond photojournalism and documentary—currently, the core concerns of the literature on photography and the affective turn." -- Susan Best * CAA Reviews *
"Elspeth H. Brown and Thy Phu’s
Feeling Photography is an exciting contribution to the field of photography theory.... This collection will be of interest to a very wide range of scholars in the humanities, and not just those that study photography – the book offers a range of ways to think about the function of photography as it often exists unanalyzed at the margins of a variety of social and cultural phenomena." -- Rachel Alpha Johnston Hurst * Reviews in Cultural Theory *
"This volume presents a significant contribution to photographic criticism and affect theory, adding to recent scholarship...the collection will be of interest to researchers of affect, visual culture and media, with relevance to documentary film." -- Emily Bullock * Media International Australia *
"It’s visual studies and affect theory in one space, and with contributors like Kimberly Juanita Brown, Ann Cvetkovich, and Dana Seitler, it’s a powerhouse collection." -- Melissa Chadburn * Literary Hub *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii
Introduction / Elspeth H. Brown and Thy Phu 1
Part I. Touchy-Feely
1. Photography between Desire and Grief: Roland Barthes and F. Holland Day / Shawn Michelle Smith 29
2. Making Sexuality Sensible: Tammy Rae Carland's and Catherine Opie's Queer Aesthetic Forms / Dana Seitler 47
3. Sepia Mutiny: Colonial Photography and Its Others in India / Christopher Pinney 71
4. Skin, Flesh, and the Affective Wrinkles of Civil Rights Photography / Elizabeth Abel 93
Part II. Intimacy and Sentiment
5. Looking Pleasant, Feeling White: The Social Politics of the Photographic Smile / Tanya Sheehan 127
6. Anticipating Citizenship: Chinese Head Tax Photographs / Lily Cho 159
7. Regarding the Pain of the Other: Photography, Famine, and the Transference of Affect / Kimberly Juanita Brown 181
8. Accessible Feelings, Modern Looks: Irene Castle, Ira L. Hill, and Broadway's Affective Economy / Marlis Schweitzer 204
Part III. Affective Archives
9. Trauma in the Archive / Diana Taylor 239
10. School Photos and Their Afterlives / Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer 252
11. Photographing Objects as Queer Archival Practice / Ann Cvetkovich 273
12. Topographies of Feeling: On Catherine Opie's American Football Landscapes / Lisa Cartwright 297
13. The Feeling of Photography, the Feeling of Kinship / David L. Eng 325
Epilogue / Thy Phu and Elspeth H. Brown 349
Bibliography 357
Contributors 385
Index 389
