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By Leigh Raiford

ISBN-10: 1469609789

ISBN-13: 9781469609782

In Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare, Leigh Raiford argues that over the last 100 years activists within the black freedom fight have used photographic imagery either to achieve political popularity and to enhance a special visible vocabulary approximately black lives. Raiford analyzes why activists selected images over different media, explores the doubts a few members had concerning the techniques, and indicates how images turned an more and more powerful, if complicated, device in representing black political pursuits.

Offering readings of using images within the antilynching circulate, the civil rights circulate, and the black energy flow, Raiford makes a speciality of key ameliorations in know-how, society, and politics to appreciate the evolution of photography's deployment in shooting white oppression, black resistance, and African American lifestyles. through placing images on the middle of the lengthy African American freedom fight, Raiford additionally explores how the recirculation of those indelible pictures in political campaigns and artwork shows either provides to and complicates our reminiscence of the events.

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