| At the Edge of Sight: Photography and the Unseen Contributor(s): Smith, Shawn Michelle (Author) |
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ISBN: 0822355027 ISBN-13: 9780822355021 Publisher: Duke University Press OUR PRICE: $28.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Photography | History - Art | History - Modern (late 19th Century To 1945) - Photography | Criticism |
| Dewey: 770.973 |
| LCCN: 2013020978 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.95 lbs) 312 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. Exploring the limits of photography and vision, she asks: What fails to register photographically, and what remains beyond the frame? What is hidden by design, and what is obscured by cultural blindness? Smith studies manifestations of photography's brush with the unseen in her own photographic work and across the wide-ranging images of early American photographers, including F. Holland Day, Eadweard Muybridge, Andrew J. Russell, Chansonetta Stanley Emmons, and Augustus Washington. She concludes by showing how concerns raised in the nineteenth century remain pertinent today in the photographs of Abu Ghraib. Ultimately, Smith explores the capacity of photography to reveal what remains beyond the edge of sight. |