Study in Black and White: Photography, Race, Humor

by Tanya Sheehan

Book Overview

In this volume, Tanya Sheehan takes humor seriously in order to trace how photographic comedy was used in America and transnationally to express evolving ideas about race, black emancipation, and civil rights in the mid-1800s and into the twentieth century.

Sheehan employs a trove of understudied materials to write a new history of photography, one that encompasses the rise of the commercial portrait studio in the 1840s, the popularization...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271081112
• ISBN13: 9780271081113
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.4" x 9.4"