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Published: 01 July 2023
Maureen Warner-Lewis, 1993, Lopez Photography, Kingston, Jamaica. Courtesy of Maureen Warner-Lewis
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (1 (40)): 263–280.
Published: 01 March 2013
...Leigh Raiford What is the relationship between photography and diaspora? How did this relationship stave off the catastrophe of black life? This essay uses the nineteenth-century photographic form of the stereograph as a hermeneutic. Through an examination of two iconic photographs of Pan-African...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): 50–74.
Published: 01 March 2009
... of violence and the visible; the crisis of imperial legitimacy; and what I call `the enemy deficit. What is the relation between photography and forgetting? What accounts for the persistent presence of photography in the scene of torture? I critique the `pornography-made-them do-it” narrative and explore...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (1): 157–168.
Published: 01 February 2008
...Richard J. Powell In response to Krista A. Thompson's An Eye for the Tropics: Tourism, Photography, and Framing the Caribbean Picturesque (2006), this essay considers the notion of a tourism generated tropical image, but informed and colored as well by local self-conceptions. From probing...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (1 (40)): 71–83.
Published: 01 March 2013
... of the political fortunes of black male leadership in the Caribbean as potentially thwarted by female authority, ancestral shame, and the objectification of tourist photography offers a useful way of conceptualizing the black radical tradition in terms of vulnerability as a condition to be avoided. Moreover...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 24–45.
Published: 01 July 2022
... workers that photographs create is informed by even as it reinforces a colonial order of racial segregation. By identifying the photographic traces of Indians’ indentureship, this essay introduces time and motion into still photography that reduces Indian lives to single ethnographic instances. It also...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 147–158.
Published: 01 July 2023
... is the Beginning —which is an attempt to unlearn the aesthetics of photography and the politics of the image in the midst of catastrophe. The entire series focuses on exploring intimacy in physical spaces during catastrophes, and in the case of La Soufrière, the photographer’s relationships with kin and friends...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 232–243.
Published: 01 July 2018
... Woman exemplifies postindenture or “coolietude” aesthetics otherwise documented in art, performance, and photography. Taking this up, the commentary’s letter form is counterarchival, an imaginative and intergenerational object that cites Bahadur’s techniques of memory work and her provocation...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 126–140.
Published: 01 March 2017
... the Dominican art scene both thematically and technically. While Ramírez creates installations that include wood carving, xylography, and paint, Paiewonsky often combines textile design and sewing with other artistic media technologies, excelling at photography. Despite the diverse old and new materials...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 35–56.
Published: 01 July 2018
..., they engage with the affect and entanglements of family photography to form a visual vocabulary of diasporic kinship. In doing so, the artwork—collages, documentaries, installations—interrogates the afterlife of the nineteenth-century European colonial experiment of Chinese indenture, designed to install...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 144–160.
Published: 01 July 2018
...Dixa Ramírez Focusing on early-twentieth-century images, this essay constructs a method for discerning how ordinary, often anonymous, Dominicans fulfill, refuse, or frustrate the myriad desires contained in the imperial gaze as recorded in photography. This method, which the author terms “ monte...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (2 (41)): 136–153.
Published: 01 July 2013
... Rutherford, ed., Identity: Community, Culture, and Difference (London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1990), 222 (italics in original). 35 Stuart Hall and David A. Bailey, editorial in “Critical Decade: Black British Photography in the Eighties,” Ten.8 2, no. 3 (1992): 4. The quote was republished from...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (1 (46)): 123–146.
Published: 01 March 2015
...; Director of Photography, Ian Bloom. “Still from Cave Scene,” Children of God, 2011. Director, Kareem Mortimer; Director of Photography, Ian Bloom. “Still from Dance Scene,” Children of God , 2011. Director, Kareem Mortimer; Director of Photography, Ian Bloom. “Still from Dance Scene,” Children...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 70–88.
Published: 01 March 2017
... to these concerns. In the Actor Boy Extensions series—an ongoing work of performance and photography begun in 2010—Jamaican artist Charles Campbell appropriates a nineteenth-century print by Isaac Belisario titled Koo-Koo or Actor Boy . 26 Belisario's image Figure 5. Olivia McGilchrist, Ernestine and Me...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): 230–233.
Published: 01 March 2009
... Museum in Harlem, the
Bronx Museum of the Arts, and most recently at the Brooklyn Museum in the show “Infinite
Island: Contemporary Caribbean Art.” He has been the recipient of the Studio Museum in
Harlem Artist in Residence, Center for Photography at Woodstock Fellowship, the New York
Foundation...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 260–265.
Published: 01 March 2017
...: A Survey of Contemporary Caribbean Photography (2012) and See Me Here: A Survey of Contemporary Self-Portraits from the Caribbean (2014). She has exhibited work in Wrestling with the Image: Caribbean Interventions , Washington, DC (2011); Pictures from Paradise , CONTACT Photography Festival, Toronto...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 187–194.
Published: 01 November 2020
...Robert Charlotte © 2020 Robert Charlotte 2020 Une réflexion sur l’acte photographique du portrait. En reportage ou en documentaire, la géopolitique des lieux conditionnera l’axe ou le point de vue du regard. La photographie devient une construction...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (2): 119–137.
Published: 01 June 2007
...: The Curator’s Palette,” Small Axe no. 4 (September 1998), 65–83.
5. For a more detailed description of this “Caribbean picturesque” aesthetic, consult Krista Thompson,An Eye for the
Tropics: Tourism, Photography, and Framing the Caribbean Picturesque (Durham: Duke University Press, 2006...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (1 (46)): 78–87.
Published: 01 March 2015
...: Contemporary Photography and Black Identity (London: Phaidon, 2001). 20 Stuart Hall, “The Whites of Their Eyes: Racist Ideologies and the Media,” in George Bridges and Rosalind Brunt, eds., Silver Linings (London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1981), 28–52; Stuart Hall, “The Spectacle of the Other...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 110–125.
Published: 01 March 2017
... settlement, incarceration, or deportation, while cognizant of the great loss and absence recorded in these archives. 11 This fictionalization of memories and loss offered a counterpoint to the often-utilitarian media depictions of “illegal” migration. The digital combination of landscape photography taken...
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