{"product_id":"facing-black-star-hardcover","title":"Facing Black Star - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eThierry Gervais\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eVincent Lavoie\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Black Star Collection at The Image Centre: the expectations, challenges, and results of a decade of research in a key photo agency's print collection.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 2005, Toronto Metropolitan (formerly Ryerson) University (TMU) acquired the massive collection Black Star Collection of the photo agency previously based in New York City--nearly 292,000 black-and-white prints. Preserved at The Image Centre at TMU, the images include iconic stills of the American Civil Rights movement by Charles Moore, among thousands of ordinary photographs that were classified by theme in the agency's picture library. While the move of the collection from a corporate photo agency to a public cultural institution enables more access, researchers must still face the size of the collection, its structural organization, the materiality of the prints, and the lack of ephemera. \u003ci\u003eFacing Black Star\u003c\/i\u003e aims to fruitfully highlight this tension between research expectations and challenges. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCoeditors Thierry Gervais and Vincent Lavoie have gathered local, national, and international researchers ranging from graduate students to established scholars and curators to illuminate the staggering range of the collection, from its disquieting record of the Nazis' rise to power to its visual archive of climate change. Each contribution highlights methodological, epistemological, and political issues inherent to conducting research in photographic archives and collections, such as indexing protocols and their impact on research, the photographic archive as a place of visibility and invisibility, and the photographic archive as a hermeneutic tool. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShedding new light on current issues in the theory and history of photography, this impressive volume containing 100 images will not only discuss the subjects portrayed in the photographs but will also address the history of photojournalism, the role of such a photographic archive in our Western societies, and ultimately photography as a medium. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLike the other volumes of the RIC Books series (MIT Press\/The Image Centre [formerly the Ryerson Image Centre]), this publication will appeal as much to academics of visual history as it will to photography enthusiasts in general.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThierry Gervais is Associate Professor at the School of Image Arts and Head of Research at The Image Centre, both at Toronto Metropolitan University. He is the author, with Gaëlle Morel, of \u003ci\u003eThe Making of Visual News: A History of Photography in the Press, \u003c\/i\u003eand the series editor of RIC Books, which he launched in 2016. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eVincent Lavoie is Professor of Art History at University of Quebec and a member of Figura Research Center, both in Montreal, QC. He is the author of \u003ci\u003ePhotojournalismes: Revoir les canons de l'image de presse \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e L'Affaire Capa: Le procès d'une icône\u003c\/i\u003e and the editor of \u003ci\u003eLa preuve par l'image.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 9.3 x 7.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 13, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51754073653536,"sku":"9780262047845","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/60ccd10054b06f11d9f1b6b4adb43937.webp?v=1780032831","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/facing-black-star-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}