Feeling Photography

Elspeth H. Brown is Associate Professor of History at the University of Toronto. She is the author of The Corporate Eye: Photography and the Rationalization of American Commercial Culture, 1884–1929.Thy Phu is Associate Professor of English at Western University in London, Ontario. She is the author of Picturing Model Citizens: Civility in Asian American Visual Culture.

• Acknowledgments viiIntroduction / Elspeth H. Brown and Thy Phu 1Part I. Touchy-Feely 1. Photography between Desire and Grief: Roland Barthes and F. Holland Day / Shawn Michelle Smith 292. Making Sexuality Sensible: Tammy Rae Carland's and Catherine Opie's Queer Aesthetic Forms / Dana Seitler 473. Sepia Mutiny: Colonial Photography and Its Others in India / Christopher Pinney 714. Skin, Flesh, and the Affective Wrinkles of Civil Rights Photography / Elizabeth Abel 93Part II. Intimacy and Sentiment 5. Looking Pleasant, Feeling White: The Social Politics of the Photographic Smile / Tanya Sheehan 1276. Anticipating Citizenship: Chinese Head Tax Photographs / Lily Cho 1597. Regarding the Pain of the Other: Photography, Famine, and the Transference of Affect / Kimberly Juanita Brown 1818. Accessible Feelings, Modern Looks: Irene Castle, Ira L. Hill, and Broadway's Affective Economy / Marlis Schweitzer 204Part III. Affective Archives 9. Trauma in the Archive / Diana Taylor 23910. School Photos and Their Afterlives / Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer 25211. Photographing Objects as Queer Archival Practice / Ann Cvetkovich 27312. Topographies of Feeling: On Catherine Opie's American Football Landscapes / Lisa Cartwright 29713. The Feeling of Photography, the Feeling of Kinship / David L. Eng 325Epilogue / Thy Phu and Elspeth H. Brown 349Bibliography 357Contributors 385Index 389

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