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Exposing Slavery: Photography, Human Bondage, and the Birth of Modern Visual Politics in America
History > United States - 19th Century
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Hardcover
- 9780190663933
- 9.3 X 6.2 X 1 inches
- 1.8 pounds
- History > United States - 19th Century
- (Single Author) Asian American
- English
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Book Description
Exposing Slavery explores how photography altered and was, in turn, shaped by conflicts over human bondage. Drawing on an original source base that includes hundreds of unpublished and little-studied photographs of slaves, ex-slaves, free African Americans, and abolitionists, as well as written archival materials, it puts visual culture at the center of understanding the experience of late slavery. It assesses how photography helped southerners to defend slavery, enslaved people to shape their social ties, abolitionists to strengthen their movement, and soldiers to pictorially enact interracial society during the Civil War. With diverse goals, these peoples transformed photography from a scientific curiosity into a political tool over only a few decades.
This creative first book sheds new light on conflicts over late American slavery, while also revealing a key moment in the relationship between modern visual culture and racialized forms of power and resistance.
Author Bio
Matthew Fox-Amato is a cultural historian of the United States and a historian of visual and material culture. His book manuscript — Slavery, Photography, and the Birth of Modern Visual Politics in America — is under contract with Oxford University Press.
Drawing upon an original source base that includes unpublished and little-studied photographs of slaves, ex-slaves, and abolitionists as well as written archival materials, this project revises our understanding of the experience of late slavery (by putting visual culture at the center) as it simultaneously rethinks the relation between early photography and racialized forms of power and resistance.
The manuscript is based upon his dissertation, which was the runner-up for the Southern Historical Association’s C. Vann Woodward Dissertation Prize and the winner of the McNeil Center’s prestigious Zuckerman Prize for 2014 — awarded to “the best dissertation connecting American history (in any period) with literature and/or art.”
Education
- B.A., Harvard University, 2006
Ph.D., University of Southern California, 2013
Source: Washington University in St Louis
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