Table of Contents
Acknowledgements iii
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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