{"product_id":"black-chronicles-photography-race-and-difference-in-victorian-britain-9780500026618","title":"Black Chronicles: Photography, Race and Difference in Victorian Britain","description":"\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, Neelika Jayawardane, Lola Jaye, and Ren�e Mussai, 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 Ren�e 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 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMussai, Ren�e:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eRen�e Mussai\u003c\/strong\u003e is an independent curator, writer, and scholar of visual culture. Formerly senior curator and head of collection at Autograph, she is currently senior research associate at the Visual Identities in Art and Design Research Centre (VIAD), University of Johannesburg, associate lecturer at University of the Arts London, and chair of the Deutsche B�rse Photography Foundation. Her publications include \u003cem\u003eEyes That Commit: A Visual Gathering\u003c\/em\u003e, and several award-winning artist monographs.","brand":"Thames \u0026 Hudson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51319038378258,"sku":"9780500026618","price":46.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c423b3e3-4f1e-4469-8681-755a9baeb794.jpg?v=1748522370","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/black-chronicles-photography-race-and-difference-in-victorian-britain-9780500026618","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}