Lynching Photographs: Volume 2

by Dora Apel and Shawn Michelle Smith

Book Overview

Why do we look at lynching photographs? What is the basis for our curiosity, rage, indignation, or revulsion? Beginning in the late nineteenth century, nearly five thousand blacks were put to death at the hands of lynch mobs throughout America. In many communities it was a public event, to be witnessed, recorded, and made available by means of photographs. In this book, the art historian Dora Apel and the American Studies scholar Shawn Michelle Smith...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520253329
• ISBN13: 9780520253322
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 110 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 7.8"