{"product_id":"facing-black-star-isbn-9780262047845","title":"Facing Black Star","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.Foreword xi\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDonia Popescu\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThierry Gervais and Vincent Lavoie\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Chronology of the Black Star Publishing Company and the Black Star Collection 43\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlexandra Gooding and Valerie Matteau\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart 1: Questioning the Origins of the Black Star Collection \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSuitcases, Stamps, and Paper: Piecing Together the Story of Black Star's Nazi Photographys 67\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNadya Bair\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDismantling Photographic Authorship: The Many Voices of Max Pohly's \"German History\" in the Black Star Collection 93\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChristian Joschke\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Making of the Black Star Collection at The Image Centre: Framing the Move form a Commercial Entity to a Cultural Institution and the Conundrum of Outstanding Significance\/National Importance 119\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eZainub Verjee and Emily McKibbon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart 2: Generating Visibilities in the Black Star Collection\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBlack Star: Gay Rights, Gay Life 143\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSophie Hackett\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Smile \/ Social Issues \/ Swing\": Bias and Contradiction in Evolving Archival Descriptions of Indigenous Subjects 167\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReilley Bishop-Stall\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Caribbean Misc.\": Finding the Caribbean in the Black Star Collection 189\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlexandra Gooding \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTelling on Archival Erasure: The Stories Behind Griffith Davis's Liberia Photographs 213\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDrew Thompson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePicturing Wild Style: Martha Cooper, Black Star, and New York's Underground 237\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eVanessa Fleet Lakewood\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart 3: Curating with the Black Star Collection\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGetting to Know the Unknowable: Black Star and the Rudolph P. Bratty Family Collection 261\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDenise Birkhofer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReflections on \u003ci\u003eHuman Rights Human Wrongs \u003c\/i\u003e279\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMark Sealy in Conversation with Taous Dahmani\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSpeculating on the Visual Archive of Climate Change 301\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBenedicte Ramade\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfterword 331\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePaul Roth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNotes on Contributors 338\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIndex 345Thierry Gervais is Associate Professor at the School of Image Arts and Head of Research at The Image Centre, both at Toronto Metropolitan University. 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