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Photography and the optical unconscious / edited by Shawn Michelle Smith, Sharon Sliwinski.

Contributor(s): Smith, Shawn Michelle, 1965- [editor.] | Sliwinski, Sharon, 1975- [editor.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 2017Description: 392 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour)Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780822369011 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Photography -- Psychological aspects | Psychoanalysis and art | Photography, Artistic | Art, Modern -- 21st century | Photography | PhotographyDDC classification: 770.1 Summary: This volume's contributors use Walter Benjamin's concept of the optical unconscious to investigate how photography has shaped history, modernity, perception, lived experience, politics, race, and human agency, thereby opening up new avenues for thinking about photography and the human psyche.
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This volume's contributors use Walter Benjamin's concept of the optical unconscious to investigate how photography has shaped history, modernity, perception, lived experience, politics, race, and human agency, thereby opening up new avenues for thinking about photography and the human psyche.

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