{"product_id":"image-matters-9780822350743","title":"Image Matters","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLooks at photograph collections of four Black German families taken between 1900 and the end of World War II and a set of portraits of Afro-Caribbean migrants to Britain taken at a photographic studio in Birmingham between 1948 and 1960.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Campt offers a compelling study of how ‘engaging the photograph as a dynamic and contested site of black cultural formation’ and belonging leads to insights about representation extending well beyond substantive particularities. In prose readily accessible to undergraduates, she adapts current theories concerning the intentionality of photography, \"image-making as a collective and relational practice of enunciation,\" and \"haptic visualities\" to case studies of black German and British identity formation.... Recommended.” - A.F. Roberts,\u003ci\u003e CHOICE Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eImage Matters\u003c\/i\u003e is a valuable addition to the body of knowledge on diaspora\u003cbr\u003eand transnationalism. The work also provides significance to the field of visual rhetoric and may prove indispensable to other similar studies. Furthermore, given the nature of the images and the stellar research this work can be effectively incorporated into the realm of psychology and sociology. At the very least, Campt upholds the idea that a picture is worth a thousand words and effectively challenges us to seek a deeper meaning of the photographs we view.” - Mary Vanderlinden, \u003ci\u003eEthnic and Racial Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Campt, by merely presenting unseen images of these African people, accomplishes much. She also proves that the African Diaspora that we all know from history books and discussion isn't as streamlined as we thought. \u003ci\u003eImage Matters \u003c\/i\u003epresents a complex story on race, gender and image control of a people who haven't controlled their image in a long time.” - Stephon Johnson, \u003ci\u003eNew York Amsterdam News\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In \u003ci\u003eImage Matters\u003c\/i\u003e Tina Campt explores a visual nexus of black European subjectivities through an innovative interrogation of vernacular photography. This volume is a beautifully detailed account of Campt’s investigation, one that gracefully unfolds its unexpectedly private moments, moving public provocations, and at times chilling accounts of our perpetually returning historical legacies. Campt has gathered a stunning array of photographs. . . .” - Vera Ingrid Grant, \u003ci\u003eCAA Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In this lucid and meticulously argued book, Tina M. Campt questions the way we see and understand race by examining family photographs of black Europeans. Her detailed readings of studio portraits, snapshots, and orphaned images engage the multiple sensory registers on which images solicit and touch us. In our encounters with these photographs of belonging, displacement, and exclusion, we are reminded why images matter.\"—\u003cb\u003eSaidiya Hartman\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eLose Your Mother: A Journey along the Atlantic Slave Route\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"None of the riveting photographs in \u003ci\u003eImage Matters\u003c\/i\u003e are what they first seem. As Tina M. Campt's analysis unfolds, the images of black diasporic communities in Europe are revealed to be infinitely complex. They complicate accepted narratives and link to larger questions about the nature of historical evidence and the historical process. Ultimately, they become a prism for thinking about the diasporic condition itself, drawing attention to the diversity of black experience and to the ways that diaspora involves not only movement but also staying put.\"—\u003cb\u003eElizabeth Edwards\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Camera as Historian: Amateur Photographers and Historical Imagination, 1885–1918\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eImage Matters\u003c\/i\u003e is an extraordinary reflection on what vernacular photography enabled black Europeans to say about themselves and their communities. . . . I have family photos throughout my home, but after reading\u003ci\u003e Image Matters\u003c\/i\u003e, this thought provoking book, I will never look at them the same. They now seem to take on a life of their own beyond just images. This is a book that I highly recommend, especially from a scholarly perspective.” -- Dennis Moore * EUR\/Electronic Urban Report *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eImage Matters\u003c\/i\u003e offers historians (and other people) a fascinating and thought-provoking set of case studies and guide to productive ways of reading photographs, as well as to thinking about our own response to them.” -- Eve Rosenhaft * German History *\u003cbr\u003e “\u003ci\u003eImage Matters\u003c\/i\u003e is highly engaging, and Campt’s employment of multiple methodologies is adroit and interesting. . . . The book is an important addition to Africana \/ Afro-Caribbean Studies and Cultural and Media Studies. More precisely, Campt makes a critical scholarly contribution to how we conceive of the African Diaspora.” -- Nicosia Shakes * Callaloo *\u003cbr\u003e“Tina Campt’s recent monograph achieves an authorial tone both deeply personable and strikingly engaging for the intellect. Her research contributes to the emerging field of black European studies through an interdisciplinary engagement with the intersecting discourses of photography, diaspora, and race. . . . Campt has produced a work of scholarship daringly subjective and intellectually provocative.” -- Angelica Fenner * Journal of Family History *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Our Family Tales and Photographic Records 1\u003cbr\u003e Part 1. Family Matters: Sight, Sense, Touch 21\u003cbr\u003e 1. Family Touches 35\u003cbr\u003e Interstitial 1. The Girl and\/in the Gaze 71\u003cbr\u003e 2. Orphan Photos, Fugitive Images 83\u003cbr\u003e Part 2. Image Matters: Sight, Sound, Score 115\u003cbr\u003e Interstitial 2. \"Thingyness\"; or, The Matter of the Image 117\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Lyric of the Archive 129\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue 199\u003cbr\u003e Notes 205\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 223\u003cbr\u003e Illustration Credits 231\u003cbr\u003e Index 233","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48737462878551,"sku":"9780822350743","price":18.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822350743.jpg?v=1723811223","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/image-matters-9780822350743","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}