Article Title
Exposing Slavery: Photography, Human Bondage, and the Birth of Modern Visual Politics in America
ISBN
9780190663933
Publication Date
2019
Price
$39.95
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Abstract
The invention of the camera transformed the visual culture of the world; in essence it opened up a brand-new window onto the soul. Contemporary scholars such as Rosemarie Garland-Thomson have explored this new visual rhetoric, suggesting that the positionality of subject and object, and the impact of the gaze, have created a startling new social environment where all of the traditional ideas associated with visual judgement are now in flux or in question. In Exposing Slavery, Matthew Fox-Amato confirms this from a historical perspective, showing readers with actual photographs and through a narration on visual politics the surprising power of that new rhetoric in shaping American race-based slavery.
DOI
10.31390/cwbr.21.4.09
Recommended Citation
Trammell, Jack
(2019)
"Exposing Slavery: Photography, Human Bondage, and the Birth of Modern Visual Politics in America,"
Civil War Book Review: Vol. 21
:
Iss.
4
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DOI: 10.31390/cwbr.21.4.09
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/cwbr/vol21/iss4/8
