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" Photography and the optical unconscious / "
Shawn Michelle Smith and Sharon Sliwinski, editors.
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847251
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Photography and the optical unconscious /\ Shawn Michelle Smith and Sharon Sliwinski, editors.
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Durham :: Duke University Press,, 2017.
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, ©2017
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1 online resource (381 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) :: illustrations (some color)
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0822372991
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082236381X
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082236901X
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9780822363811
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9780822369011
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Photography's Weimar-era proliferation and Walter Benjamin's optical unconscious / Andrés Mario Zervigón -- "A hiding place in waking dreams" : David Octavius Hill, Robert Adamson, and Walter Benjamin's "Little History of Photography" / Shawn Michelle Smith -- Freud : the photographic apparatus / Sarah Kofman -- "To adopt" : Freud, photography, and the optical unconscious / Jonathan Fardy -- The politics of contemplation / Zoe Leonard and Elisabeth Lebovici -- Freud, Saturn, and the power of hypnosis / Mary Bergstein -- On the couch / Mignon Nixon -- Vision's unseen : on sovereignty, race, and the optical unconscious / Mark Reinhardt -- Sligo heads / Kristan Horton -- Developing historical negatives : the colonial photographic archive as optical unconscious / Gabrielle Moser -- The purloined image / Laura Wexler -- The Vancouver carts : a brief mémoire / Kelly Wood -- Vietnamese photography and the look of revolution / Thy Phu -- Shooting in the dark : a note on the photographic imagination / Sharon Sliwinski -- Slow / Terri Kapsalis.
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This volume's contributors use Walter Benjamin's concept of the optical unconscious to investigate how photography has shaped history, modernity, perception, lived experience, politics, race, and human agency, thereby opening up new avenues for thinking about photography and the human psyche.
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Art, Modern-- 21st century.
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Photography-- Psychological aspects.
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Photography, Artistic.
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Psychoanalysis and art.
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Art, Modern.
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COMPUTERS-- Digital Media-- Photography.
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PHOTOGRAPHY / Criticism
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Photography-- Psychological aspects.
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PHOTOGRAPHY-- Reference.
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Photography, Artistic.
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Psychoanalysis and art.
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TECHNOLOGY ENGINEERING-- Imaging Systems.
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770.1
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TR183
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Sliwinski, Sharon,1975-
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Smith, Shawn Michelle,1965-
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