Black Chronicles: Photography, Race and Difference in Victorian Britain
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Book Overview These striking studio portraits, curated and brought together following ten years of research championed by Autograph, constitute the mos...
These striking studio portraits, curated and brought together following ten years of research championed by Autograph, constitute the most comprehensive collection of nineteenth-century photography depicting the Black subject in the Victorian era, including some of the earliest known images of Black people photographed in Britain.
The historically marginalized lives of both ordinary and prominent Black figures of African, Afro-Caribbean, South Asian, and mixed heritage are seen through a prism of curatorial advocacy and experimental scholarly assemblage. Black Chronicles features high quality reproductions of plate negatives, cartes de visite, and cabinet cards, many of which were buried deep in various private and public archives including the Hulton Archive's remarkable London Stereoscopic Company collection, unseen for decades. These photographs are linked with imperial and colonial narratives through newly commissioned essays and rare lecture transcripts, in-conversation and text interventions by Caroline Bressey, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Paul Gilroy, Stuart Hall, M. Neelika Jayawardane, Lola Jaye, Ren
Book Details Format: Hardcover | Pages: 304 | Language: English | Publisher: THAMES & HUDSON | ISBN: 0500026610
FormatHardcover
Pages304
LanguageEnglish
ISBN0500026610
EAN9780500026618
PublisherTHAMES & HUDSON
Publication Date2025-06-03
AccessoriesNo Accessory
ConditionNew
Product TypeHARD COVER BOOKS
Weight4.58 Pounds
Length11.89 Inches
Width9.84 Inches
Height1.26 Inches
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