Photography and the unseen
Abstract
Drawing on works such as Shawn Michelle Smith’s At the Edge of Sight (2013), we explore the idea that photography, in supporting new kinds of seeing, even more importantly provokes expanded cultural concern with that which is unseen. We explore different social, ideological, and epistemological presences beyond sight dealt with in Smith’s work on U.S. photographers, and in the ethnographic studies gathered in this themed section. The four articles together underline the historical variability of the specific kinds of unseen that inform photographs’ visible content and are created through it.
Citation
Lynteris , C & Stasch , R 2019 , ' Photography and the unseen ' , Visual Anthropology Review , vol. 35 , no. 1 , pp. 5-9 . https://doi.org/10.1111/var.12174
Publication
Visual Anthropology Review
Status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
1058-7187Type
Journal article
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