 | Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare Subjects: Photography; Civil rights movements; Civil rights movements; African American civil rights workers; African Americans; African Americans; African Americans; In Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare , Leigh Raiford argues that over the past one hundred years, activists in the black freedom struggle have used photographic imagery both to gain political recognition and to develop a different visual vocabulary about black lives. Offering readings of the use of photography in the anti-lynching movement, the civil rights movement, and the black power movement, Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare focuses on key transformations in technology, society, and politics to understand the evolution of photography's deployment in capturing white oppression, black resistance, and African American life. |
