• DOI:10.1080/14664650500381090
Corpus ID: 144176806

Lynching Photography and the Visual Reproduction of White Supremacy

@article{Wood2005LynchingPA,
  title={Lynching Photography and the Visual Reproduction of White Supremacy},
  author={A. Wood},
  journal={American Nineteenth Century History},
  year={2005},
  volume={6},
  pages={373 - 399}
}

A. Wood

Published 2005

Sociology

American Nineteenth Century History

This essay argues that lynching photographs constructed and perpetuated white supremacist ideology by creating permanent images of a controlled white citizenry juxtaposed to images of helpless and powerless black men. These images gained further cultural force because they co‐existed within a host of conventions and assumptions about photography, including the expectation that photographs revealed objective truth. I argue that although lynching photographs were conspicuously modern in many ways… CONTINUE READING

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