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. Raiford analyzes why activists chose photography over other media; explores the doubts some individuals had about the strategies; and shows how photography became an increasingly effective; if complex; tool in representing black political interests. Offering readings of the use of photography in the antilynching movement; the civil rights movement; and the black power movement; Raiford focuses on key transformations in technology; society; and politics to understand the evolution of photographys deployment in capturing white oppression; black resistance; and African American life. By putting photography at the center of the long African American freedom struggle; Raiford also explores how the recirculation of these indelible images in political campaigns and art exhibits both adds to and complicates our memory of the events.
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