Mortevivum: Photography and the Politics of the Visual

by Kimberly Juanita Brown

A powerful examination of the unsettling history of photography and its fraught relationship to global antiblackness.

Since photography's invention, black life has been presented as fraught, short, agonizingly filled with violence, and indifferent to intervention: living death--mortevivum--in a series of still frames that refuse a complex humanity. In Mortevivum, Kimberly Juanita Brown shows us how the visual logic of documentary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262547643
• ISBN13: 9780262547642
• Release Date: February 2024
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.9" x 7.6"