Photography is one of the principal filters through which we engage the world. The contributors t...

Visual texts uniquely demonstrate the contested terms of American identity. In American Archives ...

Shawn Michelle Smith is Professor of Visual and Critical Studies at the School of the Art Institu...

Shawn Michelle Smith is Associate Professor of Visual and Critical Studies at the School of the A...

Why do we look at lynching photographs? What is the basis for our curiosity, rage, indignation, o...

''Photography on the Color Line' should be widely read and widely taught. In this outstanding boo...

Shawn Michelle Smith is Professor of Visual and Critical Studies at the School of the Art Institu...

An exploration of the visual meaning of the color line and racial politics through the analysis o...

Shawn Michelle Smith is Associate Professor of Visual and Critical Studies at the School of the A...

Engaging contemporary photography by Sally Mann, Lorna Simpson, Carrie Mae Weems, and others, Sha...