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} }
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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