Only Skin Deep Changing Visions of the American Self

by Fusco, Coco; Wallis, Brian

• ISBN13: 9780810946354
• ISBN10: 0810946351
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-12-01
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams

Summary

This in-depth exploration of photography in relation to race and racial identity in America is the companion to a national touring exhibition--opening at the International Center of Photography in New York--a Web site, a symposium, and a project archive.

Table of Contents

Director's Foreword	p. 6
Curators' Acknowledgments	p. 8
Racial Time, Racial Marks, Racial Metaphors	p. 13
The Theoretical Status of the Concept of Race	p. 51
Looking Up/Looking Down	p. 62
The Traffic in Photographs	p. 79
The Shadow and the Substance: Race, Photography, and the Index	p. 111
Looking for Empire in the U.S. Colonial Archive	p. 129
Assimilate/Impersonate	p. 144
Black Bodies, White Science: Louis Agassiz's Slave Daguerreotypes	p. 163
Prairie Pinups: Reconsidering Historic Portraits of American Indian Women	p. 183
No-Movies: The Art of False Documents	p. 199
Humanize/Fetishize	p. 204
Skin Head Sex Thing: Racial Difference and the Homoerotic Imaginary	p. 237
The Consumption of Lynching Images	p. 267
Exposure	p. 275
All for One/One for All	p. 282
On the Matter of Whiteness	p. 301
Autonomy and the Archive in America: Reexamining the Intersection of Photography and Stereotype	p. 313
Toyo Miyatake and "Our World"	p. 335
Passing Likeness: Dorothea Lange's "Migrant Mother" and the Paradox of Iconicity	p. 345
Progress/Regress	p. 356
Where Truth Ends and Fantasy Begins: Postcards from the South Pacific	p. 371
Morphologies: Race as a Visual Technology	p. 379
Checklist of the Exhibition	p. 394
Selected Bibliography	p. 404
Notes on the Contributors	p. 409
Lenders to the Exhibition	p. 410
Credits	p. 411
Index	p. 412
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