Appropriated Gazes: Photographic Portraits and Black Identities, Bread & Books / London
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Appropriated Gazes: Photographic Portraits and Black Identities, Bread & Books / London, 45 p., 2008.
Photography works as a paradigm that allows to examine, both how a technology of representation commonly considered as objective has always been involved in discourse of racial discriminations,and how a new generation of black photographers has appropriated this medium to produce representations that document contemporary mutations of identities. Photographic portraits are then a medium for examining the pertinence of the categorization that is frequently used to indicate the status and distinctiveness of non-western photographic productions.
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