Elspeth H. Brown is Associate Professor of History at the University of Toronto. She is the author of The Corporate Eye: Photography and the Rationalization of American Commercial Culture, 1884–1929. Thy Phu is Associate Professor of English at Western University in London, Ontario. She is the author of Picturing Model Citizens: Civility in Asian American Visual Culture.
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction / Elspeth H. Brown and Thy Phu 1
Part I. Touchy-Feely
1. Photography between Desire and Grief: Roland Barthes and F. Holland Day
/ Shawn Michelle Smith 29
2. Making Sexuality Sensible: Tammy Rae Carland's and Catherine Opie's
Queer Aesthetic Forms / Dana Seitler 47
3. Sepia Mutiny: Colonial Photography and Its Others in India / Christopher
Pinney 71
4. Skin, Flesh, and the Affective Wrinkles of Civil Rights Photography /
Elizabeth Abel 93
Part II. Intimacy and Sentiment
5. Looking Pleasant, Feeling White: The Social Politics of the Photographic
Smile / Tanya Sheehan 127
6. Anticipating Citizenship: Chinese Head Tax Photographs / Lily Cho 159
7. Regarding the Pain of the Other: Photography, Famine, and the
Transference of Affect / Kimberly Juanita Brown 181
8. Accessible Feelings, Modern Looks: Irene Castle, Ira L. Hill, and
Broadway's Affective Economy / Marlis Schweitzer 204
Part III. Affective Archives
9. Trauma in the Archive / Diana Taylor 239
10. School Photos and Their Afterlives / Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer
252
11. Photographing Objects as Queer Archival Practice / Ann Cvetkovich 273
12. Topographies of Feeling: On Catherine Opie's American Football
Landscapes / Lisa Cartwright 297
13. The Feeling of Photography, the Feeling of Kinship / David L. Eng 325
Epilogue / Thy Phu and Elspeth H. Brown 349
Bibliography 357
Contributors 385
Index 389
