Harlem Crossroads: Black Writers and the Photograph in the Twentieth CenturyPrinceton University Press, 16 sept. 2007 - 353 pagini The Harlem riot of 1935 not only signaled the end of the Harlem Renaissance; it made black America's cultural capital an icon for the challenges of American modernity. Luring photographers interested in socially conscious, journalistic, and aesthetic representation, post-Renaissance Harlem helped give rise to America's full-blown image culture and its definitive genre, documentary. The images made there in turn became critical to the work of black writers seeking to reinvent literary forms. Harlem Crossroads is the first book to examine their deep, sustained engagements with photographic practices. |
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... logic of institu- tional reading ; it becomes visible only when viewed in broader cultural and social frames . By way of focusing on their engagements and on the place of the work they produced in the labile field of photography , I ...
... logic has shifted considerably ; in a parody of gallantry , one of the officers appears to assist his detainee with her packages as they cross the street . This difference is not , however , entirely an effect of the shot's focus on ...
... logic implied by these images ? The most powerful social fact registered in the 1935 " great riot , " as in its documentation , was the end of the Harlem Renaissance era ; in the wake of its cartwheeling , high - flying optimism , and ...
... logical vehicle and as an aesthetic object . In November 1936 , the media tycoon Henry R. Luce shrewdly capitalized on the new photographic technologies to found " an entirely new publishing venture " : the " picture magazine ...
... logic of its inceptions and earlier uses . In some of the most provocative and influential recent readings in the field , photography has been powerfully sutured to pre - twentieth - century nation - building projects . The rapidly ...
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Documenting Harlem Images and Afterlives | 19 |
From Black Voices to Black Power Richard Wright and the Trial of Documentary | 61 |
Ralph Ellison Photographer | 109 |
PhotoText Capital James Baldwin Richard Avedon and the Uses of Harlem | 157 |
Dodging and Burning The Writer and the Image after the Civil Rights Era | 195 |
Looking Back Toni Morrison and the Return to Platos Cave | 249 |
Abbreviations | 262 |
Notes | 264 |
Bibliography | 314 |
Index | 338 |
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Harlem Crossroads: Black Writers and the Photograph in the Twentieth Century Sara Blair Previzualizare limitată - 2007 |