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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

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 An Eye for the Tropics: Tourism, Photography, and Framing the Caribbean Picturesque, also published by Duke University Press.

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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

0-8223-5807-7

OCLC

• 1144915593
• 899320644

Doi

• 10.1515/9780822375982

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