| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 202 pages) : color illustrations (facsimilies) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Summary |
"Explores the connections among race, visual humor, and technologies of photography in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with special attention to the reappropriation of racial humor by contemporary artists"--Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Strange effects and photographic pleasures : race, science, and early photography -- The darkey photographer : camera comedy and the minstrel stage -- Look pleasant, please! : a social history of the photographic smile -- Writing the self through others : racial humor and the photographic postcard -- Revival and subversion : snapshot performances from Kodak to Kara Walker. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Photography, Humorous -- History.
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Photography, Humorous. |
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History. |
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Ethnic wit and humor -- History.
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Ethnic wit and humor. |
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Photography -- Social aspects -- History.
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Photography -- Social aspects. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Pennsylvania State University Press, publisher.
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| ISBN |
9780271082486 (electronic book) |
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0271082488 (electronic book) |
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9780271081106 |
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0271081104 |
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