TY  - BOOK
AU  - Campt,Tina
TI  - Listening to images
SN  - 9780822373582 (ebook)
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Durham
PB  - Duke University Press
KW  - Identification photographs
KW  - Portrait photography
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Blacks
KW  - Portraits
KW  - Africans
KW  - African diaspora
KW  - Photography
KW  - ukslc
KW  - Photography & photographs
KW  - thema
KW  - Photographs: collections
KW  - Social & cultural history
KW  - Ethnic studies
KW  - Relating to African American people
KW  - lcsh
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Also available in printed form ISBN 9780822362708; Electronic reproduction; Askews and Holts; Mode of access: World Wide Web
N2  - Tina M. Campt explores a way of listening to photography by engaging with lost archives of state identification photographs of Afro-diasporan people taken between the late 1800s and the present, showing how to hear the quiet refusal emanating from these photos originally intended to dehumanize and police their subjects; In Listening to Images Tina M. Campt explores a way of listening closely to photography, engaging with lost archives of historically dismissed photographs of black subjects taken throughout the black diaspora. Engaging with photographs through sound, Campt looks beyond what one usually sees and attunes her senses to the other affective frequencies through which these photographs register. She hears in these photos-which range from late nineteenth-century ethnographic photographs of rural African women and photographs taken in an early twentieth-century Cape Town prison to postwar passport photographs in Birmingham, England and 1960s mug shots of the Freedom Riders-a quiet intensity and quotidian practices of refusal. Originally intended to dehumanize, police, and restrict their subjects, these photographs convey the softly buzzing tension of colonialism, the low hum of resistance and subversion, and the anticipation and performance of a future that has yet to happen. Engaging with discourses of fugitivity, black futurity, and black feminist theory, Campt takes these tools of colonialism and repurposes them, hearing and sharing their moments of refusal, rupture, and imagination
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