{"product_id":"black-chronicles-photography-race-and-difference-in-victorian-britain-hardcover","title":"Black Chronicles: Photography, Race and Difference in Victorian Britain - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRenée Mussai\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eHenry Louis Gates\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by), \u003cb\u003ePaul Gilroy\u003c\/b\u003e (Text by (Art\/Photo Books))\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese striking studio portraits, curated and brought together following ten years of research championed by Autograph, constitute the most comprehensive collection of nineteenth-century photography depicting the Black subject in the Victorian era, including some of the earliest known images of Black people photographed in Britain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe historically marginalized lives of both ordinary and prominent Black figures of African, Afro-Caribbean, South Asian, and mixed heritage are seen through a prism of curatorial advocacy and experimental scholarly assemblage. \u003cem\u003eBlack Chronicles\u003c\/em\u003e features high quality reproductions of plate negatives, cartes de visite, and cabinet cards, many of which were buried deep in various private and public archives including the Hulton Archive's remarkable London Stereoscopic Company collection, unseen for decades. These photographs are linked with imperial and colonial narratives through newly commissioned essays and rare lecture transcripts, in-conversation and text interventions by Caroline Bressey, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Paul Gilroy, Stuart Hall, M. Neelika Jayawardane, Lola Jaye, Renée Mussai and Val Wilmer, and an afterword by Mark Sealy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBuilt upon groundbreaking, in-depth new research, \u003cem\u003eBlack Chronicles\u003c\/em\u003e opens up photographic archives to expand and enrich photography's complex cultural histories and subjectivities, offering an essential insight into the visual politics of race, representation and difference in the Victorian era by addressing this crucial missing chapter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction and texts by Renée Mussai, foreword by Henry Louis Gates Jr., text by Paul Gilroy, text by Stuart Hall, text by Caroline Bressey, text by Lola Jaye, text by M. Neelika Jayawardane, afterword by Mark Sealy, text by Val Wilmer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished by Thames \u0026amp; Hudson in partnership with Autograph.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.26 x 11.89 x 9.84 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 03, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43153209294911,"sku":"9780500026618","price":78.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/ZbVqEnRHkC9780500026618.webp?v=1776945134","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/black-chronicles-photography-race-and-difference-in-victorian-britain-hardcover","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}