Lynching Photographs: Volume 2
(Part of the Defining Moments in Photography Series)
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Why do we look at lynching photographs? What is the basis for our curiosity, rage, indignation, or revulsion? Beginning in the late nineteenth century, nearly five thousand blacks were put to death at the hands of lynch mobs throughout America. In many communities it was a public event, to be witnessed, recorded, and made available by means of photographs. In this book, the art historian Dora Apel and the American Studies scholar Shawn Michelle Smith...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0520253329
ISBN13:9780520253322
Release Date:January 2008
Publisher:University of California Press
Length:110 Pages
Weight:1.25 lbs.
Dimensions:0.4" x 5.9" x 7.8"
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