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What is Study in Black and White : Photography, Race, Humor about?
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 of amateur photography around 1900, and the mass circula
Who reads Study in Black and White : Photography, Race, Humor?
It is typically read by artists, cooks, musicians and hobbyists working from how-to references.
Common subject areas: arts, cooking, music, crafts.
- Author
- Tanya Sheehan; Pennsylvania State University Press
- Publisher
- The Pennsylvania State University Press
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780271082486
- Category
- photography
- Subjects
- History, Art, Photography
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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