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Subject(s)

• Mass media and culture—United States [Browse]
• Mass media and culture—Caribbean Area [Browse]
• Photography—Social aspects—United States [Browse]
• Art and popular culture [Browse]
• African diaspora [Browse]

Summary note

<div>Krista Thompson is Weinberg College Board of Visitors Professor and Associate Professor in the Department of Art History at Northwestern University. She is the author of <I>An Eye for the Tropics: Tourism, Photography, and Framing the Caribbean Picturesque</I>, also published by Duke University Press.</div>

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Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

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Language note

English

Contents

• "Keeping it real" : street photography, public visibility, and Afro-modernity
• Video light : dancehall and the aesthetics of spectacular un-visibility in Jamaica
• Shine, shimmer, and splendor : African diasporic aesthetics and the art of being seen in the Bahamas
• The sound of light : reflections on art history in the visual culture of hip-hop.

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ISBN

• 9780822358077
• 0822358077

OCLC

• 1144915593
• 899320644

Doi

10.1515/9780822375982

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