At the Edge of Sight Smith Shawn Michelle
At the Edge of Sight Smith Shawn Michelle The advent of photography revolutionized perception, making visible what was once impossible to see with the human eye. Exploring the limits of photography…
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At the Edge of Sight Smith Shawn Michelle
The advent of photography revolutionized perception, making visible what was once impossible to see with the human eye. Exploring the limits of photography and vision, she asks: What fails to register photographically, and what remains beyond the frame? In At the Edge of Sight, Shawn Michelle Smith engages these dynamics of seeing and not seeing, focusing attention as much on absence as presence, on the invisible as the visible.
Smith studies manifestations of photography's brush with the unseen in her own photographic work and across the wide-ranging images of early American photographers, including F. What is hidden by design, and what is obscured by cultural blindness? Holland Day, Eadweard Muybridge, Andrew J.
Russell, Chansonetta Stanley Emmons, and Augustus Washington. She concludes by showing how concerns raised in the nineteenth century remain pertinent today in the