Table of Contents

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I. Introduction

Chapter 1 Feeling Photography: An Introduction

Elspeth H. Brown and Thy Phu 1

II. Affective Archives

Chapter 2 Photographing Objects as Queer Archival Practice

Ann Cvetkovich

Chapter 3 Trauma in the Archive

Diana Taylor

Chapter 4 School Pictures and Their Afterlives

Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer

Chapter 5 Topographies of Feeling in Photography’s New Everyday:

On Catherine Opie’s American Football Landscapes

Lisa Cartwright

Chapter 6 The Feeling of Photography, the Feeling of Kinship

David Eng

III. Intimacy and Sentiment

Chapter 7 Anticipating Citizenship: Chinese Head Tax Photographs

Lily Cho

Chapter 8 Looking Pleasant, Feeling White: The Politics of Emotion in

American Portrait Photography

Tanya Sheehan

Chapter 9 Regarding the Pain of the Other: Kevin Carter and the Transference of Affect

Kimberly Juanita Brown

Chapter 10 Accessible Feelings, Modern Looks: Irene Castle, Ira L. Hill, and

Broadway’s Affective Economy

Marlis Schweitzer

IV. Touchy-Feely

Chapter 11 Sepia Mutiny: Colonial Photography and Its Others

Christopher Pinney

Chapter 12 Skin, Flesh and the Affective Wrinkles of Civil Rights Photography

Elizabeth Abel

Chapter 13 Making Sexuality Sensible: Tammy Rae Carland and Catherine Opie’s Queer Aesthetic Forms

Dana Seitler

Chapter 14 Photography Between Desire and Grief: Roland Barthes and F. Holland Day

Shawn Michelle Smith

Epilogue

Bibliography

Contributor Biographies

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