... citizen—this chapter analyzes the photographic archive as the optical unconscious of colonial projects. Drawing on Ann Laura Stoler’s suggestion that the archival researcher’s work is a strategy of “developing historical negatives,” and reading it through Walter Benjamin’s descriptions of the optical...

... Sigmund Freud unconscious ideology illusion photographic negative ...

... the metaphor of photography—and the photographic negative, in particular—in order to illustrate his theory of the unconscious. Far from simply producing a transparent image of reality, Kofman shows how Freud used photography to help illustrate the way human perception is structured to suit the demands...

... photos tagged with #If They Gunned Me Down, Which Picture Would They Use? Created in response to the proliferation of negative photographic representations of Michael Brown and Trayvon Martin, the photos contrast images of young women and men in graduation caps and gowns, military uniforms, medical...