Description: Further DetailsTitle: Photography and the Optical UnconsciousCondition: NewISBN-10: 082236901XEAN: 9780822369011ISBN: 9780822369011Publisher: Duke University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 05/26/2017Description: Photography is one of the principal filters through which we engage the world. The contributors to this volume focus on Walter Benjamin's concept of the optical unconscious to investigate how photography has shaped history, modernity, perception, lived experience, politics, race, and human agency. In essays that range from examinations of Benjamin's and Sigmund Freud's writings to the work of Kara Walker and Roland Barthes's famous Winter Garden photograph, the contributors explore what photography can teach us about the nature of the unconscious. They attend to side perceptions, develop latent images, discover things hidden in plain sight, focus on the disavowed, and perceive the slow. Of particular note are the ways race and colonialism have informed photography from its beginning. The volume also contains photographic portfolios by Zoe Leonard, Kelly Wood, and Kristan Horton, whose work speaks to the optical unconscious while demonstrating how photographs communicate on their own terms. The essays and portfolios in Photography and the Optical Unconscious create a collective and sustained assessment of Benjamin's influential concept, opening up new avenues for thinking about photography and the human psyche. Contributors. Mary Bergstein, Jonathan Fardy, Kristan Horton, Terri Kapsalis, Sarah Kofman, Elisabeth Lebovici, Zoe Leonard, Gabrielle Moser, Mignon Nixon, Thy Phu, Mark Reinhardt, Shawn Michelle Smith, Sharon Sliwinski, Laura Wexler, Kelly Wood, Andrés Mario ZervigónLanguage: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Weight: 567gContributor: Shawn Michelle Smith (Edited by), Sharon Sliwinski (Edited by)Genre: Arts & PhotographyAuthor: Sharon SliwinskiRelease Year: 2017 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Photography and the Optical Unconscious
Title: Photography and the Optical Unconscious
ISBN-10: 082236901X
EAN: 9780822369011
ISBN: 9780822369011
Release Date: 05/26/2017
Release Year: 2017
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Contributor: Sharon Sliwinski (Edited by)
Genre: Arts & Photography
Number of Pages: 392 Pages
Publication Name: Photography and the Optical Unconscious
Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication Year: 2017
Item Height: 0.9 in
Subject: Criticism & Theory, General, Criticism
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 20 Oz
Subject Area: Art, Photography
Author: Sharon Sliwinski
Item Length: 9 in
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
