When Home Is a Photograph

Blackness and Belonging in the World

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Author(s)
Raiford, Leigh
Language
English
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Abstract
When Home Is a Photograph asks how Black people use photography to make home in the world. Leigh Raiford explores the practices of Black American activists and artists to understand the complex relationship between their lives and the medium of photography.
URI
https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/111713
Keywords
Photography; Belonging; Home; Black radical tradition; Travel; Marcus Garvey; James Van Der Zee; Eslanda Goode Robeson; Kathleen Neal Cleaver; Dawoud Bey; Sadie Barnette; Diaspora; Black habits of photography; Antiblackness; Universal Negro Improvement Association UNIA; Portraiture; Stereoscopic; Paul Robeson; Jr.; Family photography; Southern Africa; Ethnographic photography; Black Panther Party; Curatorial practice; Family photography album; Black internationalism; Covid-19 pandemic; Freedom; June Jordan; Art exhibition
DOI
10.1215/9781478062066
ISBN
9781478062066, 9781478062066, 9781478094623, 9781478029861, 9781478033318
Publisher
Duke University Press
Publisher website
https://www.dukeupress.edu/
Publication date and place
Durham, North Carolina, USA, 2026
Series
The Visual Arts of Africa and its Diasporas,
Classification
Photography and photographs
Pages
170
Rights
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/