Imprisoned in a luminous glare: photography and the African American freedom struggle

Abstract

"In Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare, Leigh Raiford argues that over the past one hundred years activists in the black freedom struggle have used photographic imagery both to gain political recognition and to develop a different visual vocabulary about black lives. Offering readings of the use of photography in the antilynching movement, the civil rights movement, and the black power movement, Raiford focuses on key transformations in technology, society, and politics to understand the evolution of photography's deployment in capturing white oppression, black resistance, and African American life"--Back of cover.

Contents

No relation to the facts about lynching -- Come let us build a new world together -- Attacked first by sight -- Conclusion : Or was it the pictures that made her unrecognizable.