Feeling Photography, edited collection
This collection of essays emerged from a 2009 conference of the same name, organized by the seminar, and held at the University of Toronto.
Table of Contents
I. Introduction
Chapter 1. “Feeling Photography: An Introduction”
Elspeth H. Brown and Thy Phu
II. Touchy-Feely
Chapter 2. “Photography Between Desire and Grief: Roland Barthes and F. Holland Day”
Shawn Michelle Smith
Chapter 3. “Making Sexuality Sensible: Tammy Rae Carland and Catherine Opie’s Queer Aesthetic Forms”
Dana Seitler
Chapter 4. “Sepia Mutiny: Colonial Photography and Its Others”
Christopher Pinney
Chapter 5. “Skin, Flesh and the Affective Wrinkles of Civil Rights Photography”
Elizabeth Abel
III. Intimacy and Sentiment
Chapter 6. “Looking Pleasant, Feeling White: The Social Politics of the Photographic Smile”
Tanya Sheehan
Chapter 7. “Anticipating Citizenship: Chinese Head Tax Photographs”
Lily Cho
Chapter 8. “Regarding the Pain of the Other: Kevin Carter and the Transference of Affect”
Kimberly Juanita Brown
Chapter 9. “Accessible Feelings, Modern Looks: Irene Castle, Ira L. Hill, and Broadway’s Affective Economy”
Marlis Schweitzer
IV. Affective Archives
Chapter 10. “Trauma in the Archive”
Diana Taylor
Chapter 11. “School Pictures and Their Afterlives”
Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer
Chapter 12. “Photographing Objects as Queer Archival Practice”
Ann Cvetkovich
Chapter 13. “Topographies of Feeling in Photography’s New Everyday: On Catherine Opie’s American Football Landscapes”
Lisa Cartwright
Chapter 14. “The Feeling of Photography, the Feeling of Kinship”
David Eng
Epilogue
Thy Phu and Elspeth H. Brown
Bibliography
Contributor Biographies