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Mortevivum: Photography and the Politics of the Visual (On Seeing) by Kimberly Juanita Brown is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Mortevivum: Photography and the Politics of the Visual (On Seeing) about?
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 photography and the cultural legacy of empire have come together to produce the understanding that blackness and suffering—and death—are inextricable. Brown traces this idea from the earliest images of the enslaved to the latest newspaper photographs of black bodies, from the United States and South Africa to Haiti and Rwanda, documenting the enduring, pernicious connection between photography and a global history of antiblackness. Photography's history, inextricably linked to colonialism and white supremacy, is a catalog of othering, surveillance, and the violence of objectification. In the genocide in Rwanda, for instance, photographs after the fact tell viewers that blackness comes with a corresponding violence that no human intervention can abate
Who reads Mortevivum: Photography and the Politics of the Visual (On Seeing)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Kimberly Juanita Brown
- Publisher
- The MIT Press
- Published
- 2024
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780262547642
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Photography, Social Science, Art