Lynching photographs /

Apel, Dora, 1952-

Lynching photographs / Dora Apel , Shawn Michelle Smith. - Berkeley : University of California Press, c2007. - 101 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. - Defining moments in American photography ; 2 .

"Published with the assistance of The Getty Foundation".

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Anthony W. Lee -- The evidence of lynching photographs / Shawn Michelle Smith -- Lynching photographs and the politics of public shaming / Dora Apel -- Notes -- Works cited.

Presents an analysis of lynching photographs, covering their history, meanings, uses, and displays.

0520253329 : PAP $19.95 9780520253322

Univ of California Pr, California/Princeton 1445 Lower Ferry rd, Ewing, NJ, USA, 08618, (609)8831759 SAN 630-639X

2007000210


Lynching--United States--Pictorial works.
Lynching in art--Criticism and interpretation.
Racism--History.--United States
Photographic criticism.

HV6459 / .A64 2007

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