When home is a photograph : blackness and belonging in the world / Leigh Raiford.

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Title & Author:

When home is a photograph : blackness and belonging in the world / Leigh Raiford.

Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2026.
©2026

Description:

x, 159 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Series:

The visual arts of Africa and its diasporas

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: When home Is a photograph -- The cynosure of the eyes of Harlem: Marcus Garvey and Hames Van Der Zee in stereograph -- To feel perfectly at home: Eslanda Robeson's ethnographic lens -- Making home in exile: Kathleen Cleaver's Black Panther Family Album -- Shelter in place: Dawoud Bey, Sadie Barnette, and the photography of uncertainty.

Summary:

"When Home is a Photograph considers how Black Americans use photography to make home in the world. Exploring the complex relationship between racialized subjects and the medium of photography, Leigh Raiford focuses primarily on well-known twentieth-century Black American activists and artists including James Van Der Zee, Marcus Garvey, Eslanda Goode Robinson, and Kathleen Neal Cleaver, examining how different genres of photography emplace the individual within a known and imagined history and sociopolitical perspective. Featuring modes from portraiture and ethnographic photography, to family snapshots and landscape imagery, Raiford asks how a sense of self is formed around, enacted on, and mediated by the lens of a camera. Recognizing photography not only as a way of knowing the self and documenting space and time, but also as a site of violence and mechanism for codifying imperialism and racial sight, this book envisions the work of decolonizing the camera, centering Black photographic habits to better understand the conceptual implications of home"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9781478033318 paperback
1478033312 paperback
9781478029861 hardcover
1478029862 hardcover
electronic book
9781478062066

Subject:

African American photographers.
Photographers, Black United States.
Photography Social aspects United States.
Photography Political aspects United States.
Photography, Artistic Themes, motives.
Aesthetics, Black.
Photographes noirs américains.
Photographes noirs États-Unis.
Esthétique noire.
Photographers, Black
Photography Political aspects
Photography Social aspects
United States

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Visual arts of Africa and its diasporas

Blackness and belonging in the world

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