Beschreibung:
"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
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