{"product_id":"black-light-revealing-the-hidden-history-of-photography-and-cinema-paperback-softback-9781517917760","title":"Black Light; Revealing the Hidden History of Photography and Cinema (Paperback \/ softback) 9781517917760","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eBlack Light\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eRevealing the Hidden History of Photography and Cinema\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eChristophe Wall-Romana (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781517917760\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 30 June 2026\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e328 pages, 80 black and white illustrations\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.6 cm, 0.397 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eBlack Light\u003c\/i\u003e is an erudite and richly illustrated study of the enduring intersections of race and visuality. Reflecting on the telescope, animated visualization, the graphic method, heliography, the chromo-megascope, the telechronoscope, silhouettes, wave theory, black light, and so much more, this book promises to catalyze robust conversations at the intersection of science and technology studies, media archaeology, and black studies, conversations that will in turn inflect histories and theories of photography and cinema.\"—Karen Redrobe, author of \u003ci\u003eUndead: (Inter)(in)animation, Feminisms, and the Art of War\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA radical assessment of the racial motives underlying the conception of photography and cinema\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eConventional histories have long traced the origins of photography and cinema to the goal of reproducing the visible world. \u003ci\u003eBlack Light\u003c\/i\u003e offers a radical counter to this understanding. Investigating the optical, cosmological, and racial thought that surrounded their conception, Christophe Wall-Romana argues that these media developed out of a desire to visualize what \u003ci\u003ecannot\u003c\/i\u003e be seen.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTaking as its starting point the concurrent invention of the telescope and industrialization of the transatlantic slave trade, \u003ci\u003eBlack Light\u003c\/i\u003e shows how photography and cinema are entangled with two key preoccupations of the Enlightenment: visualizing the mysteries of the cosmos and managing Blackness. Wall-Romana uses literary and technological sources to demonstrate how racial and astronomical thinking interwove throughout the long development of our modern visual media. Retracing the impulses behind nonmimetic photoimaging and dynamic modeling, he exposes the racial underpinnings of research on photosensitive compounds such as silver nitrate and the racist lenses applied in post-Copernican cosmology.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlack Light\u003c\/i\u003e charts the pivotal period from the seventeenth through the nineteenth century when Europeans were reckoning with \"multiple worlds\" and natural philosophy was giving way to \"mechanical objectivity.\" Wall-Romana shows how engagement with the nature of light was always entangled with racist discourses on Blackness - especially after the 1801 discovery of the invisible spectrum and its paradox of \"black light.\" Deprovincializing media archaeology, this book presents a groundbreaking historical framework with which to reenvision our dominant modes of seeing and understanding the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRetail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly with images accompanied by short alt text and\/or extended descriptions.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: The Matrix of Photography and Cinema\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1. Photosophia: Visualizing the Racialized Cosmos in the Seventeenth Century\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2. Kinemorphosis: Cosmological Animation and History's Whiteness\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e3. Photoimaging Hieroglyphs: Blackening, Anti-Blackness, and Proto-Photography\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e4. Photology: Black Light, the Wave Theory of Light, and Pre-Photography\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e5. Selenography: The Moon, Slavery, and the Dark Side of Photography\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e6. The Graphic Method: Time-Tracing, Colonial Supremacy, and Astrophotography\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e7. Flammarion's Telechronoscope: The End of Natural History and the Beginning of Cinema\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eConclusion: The Matrix of Photocinema and the Moral Universe\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Univ Of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52694813344024,"sku":"9781517917760","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/black-light-revealing-the-hidden-history-of-photography-and-cinema-paperback-softback-9781517917760","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}