LEADER 04714cam a22006498i 4500001 99128086189506421 005 20230928042227.0 007 t| 008 230209s2023 nyu b 001 0 eng^^ 010 2023005112 020 9781032227344 020 1032227346 020 9781032229324 |q(paperback) 020 1032229322 020 |z9781003274797 |q(ebook) 020 |z9781000914702 |qePub ebook 020 |z9781000914658 |qPDF ebook 035 (OCoLC)on1367992798 040 DLC |beng |erda |cDLC |dCUV |dOCLCF |dUKMGB 042 pcc 043 n------s------ 050 00 TR183 |b.P63 2024 082 00 779 |223/eng/20230223 100 1 Polsky, Stephanie, |eauthor. 245 14 The photographic invention of Whiteness : |bthe visual cultures of White Atlantic worlds / |cStephanie Polsky. 263 2307 264 1 New York, NY : |bRoutledge, |c2024. 300 264 pages : |billustrations (black and white) ; |c25 cm. 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 490 0 Routledge history of photography 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 Daguerreotypes, the vanishing Native American and the invention of Western typologies -- Mathew Brady's Civil War, daguerreotypes and the technological redefinition of White nationalism -- Ain't I a human : Louis Agassiz's slave daguerreotypes and White scientific voyeurism -- How the West was won : America at the Great Exhibition of 1851 -- The founding of the great White world : the Arctic daguerreotypes -- White aesthetics : daguerreotypes in the consolidation of Colonial empires in West Africa -- Lewis Carroll and the imperial eroticisation of White childhood -- Material agency : the Eames Office, race, and US Cold War photographic aesthetics -- The apple and the Anthropocene : the Whiteness of Silicon Valley's digital ecologies. 520 "Focusing on the creation of the concept of whiteness, this study links early photographic imagery to the development and exploitation that was common in the colonial Atlantic World of the mid- to late-nineteenth century. With the advent of the daguerreotype in the mid-nineteenth century, white European settlers could imagine themselves as a supra-national community, where the attainment of wealth was rapidly becoming accessible through colonisation. Their dispersal throughout the colonial territories made possible the advent of a new representative type of whiteness that eventually merged with the portrayal of modernity itself. Over time, the colonisation of the Atlantic World, became synonymous with fascination itself within a European mind fixated upon both a racially subordinated world and the technical media through which it was represented. In the intervening centuries, images have acted as a medium of the imaginary, allowing for ideas around classification and the measurement of value to travel and to situate themselves as universal means. Contemporary societies still grapple with the residues of race, gender, class, and sexuality first established by the contrived mores of this representational medium and those who were racialised by the camera as objects of fascination, curiosity, or concern have remained so well into the postdigital era. The book will be of interest to scholars working in history of photography, art history, colonialism, and critical race theory"-- |cProvided by publisher. 650 0 Photography |zAmerica |xInfluence |xHistory. 650 0 Photography |xSocial aspects |zAmerica |xHistory. 650 0 Daguerreotype |zAmerica |xHistory. 650 0 White privilege (Social structure) |zAmerica |xHistory. 650 0 Stereotypes (Social psychology) in art |zAmerica |xHistory. 650 0 White people in popular culture |zAmerica |xHistory. 650 7 Daguerreotype. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00886764 650 7 Photography |xInfluence. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01061766 650 7 Photography |xSocial aspects. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01061826 650 7 Stereotypes (Social psychology) in art. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01431524 650 7 White people in popular culture. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01174835 650 7 White privilege (Social structure) |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst02059955 651 7 America. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01239786 655 7 History. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01411628 776 08 |iebook version : |z9781000914702 910 |cC0710mon |d3110-10 |gYBP 914 (OCoLC)on1367992798 |bOCoLC |cmatch |d20230927 |eprocessed |f1367992798 960 |o1 |zUSD 961 |fASP |m311010 |nCloth 980 19384781 |i170.00 982 |cf 984 20230801 |b093833 |cYBP-US