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Jun 13, 2023 | ISBN 9780262047845

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Table Of Contents

Foreword xi
Donia Popescu

Introduction 1
Thierry Gervais and Vincent Lavoie

A Chronology of the Black Star Publishing Company and the Black Star Collection 43
Alexandra Gooding and Valerie Matteau

Part 1: Questioning the Origins of the Black Star Collection 

Suitcases, Stamps, and Paper: Piecing Together the Story of Black Star’s Nazi Photographys 67
Nadya Bair

Dismantling Photographic Authorship: The Many Voices of Max Pohly’s “German History” in the Black Star Collection 93
Christian Joschke

The 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
Zainub Verjee and Emily McKibbon

Part 2: Generating Visibilities in the Black Star Collection

Black Star: Gay Rights, Gay Life 143
Sophie Hackett

“Smile / Social Issues / Swing”: Bias and Contradiction in Evolving Archival Descriptions of Indigenous Subjects 167
Reilley Bishop-Stall

“Caribbean Misc.”: Finding the Caribbean in the Black Star Collection 189
Alexandra Gooding

Telling on Archival Erasure: The Stories Behind Griffith Davis’s Liberia Photographs 213
Drew Thompson

Picturing Wild Style: Martha Cooper, Black Star, and New York’s Underground 237
Vanessa Fleet Lakewood

Part 3: Curating with the Black Star Collection

Getting to Know the Unknowable: Black Star and the Rudolph P. Bratty Family Collection 261
Denise Birkhofer

Reflections on Human Rights Human Wrongs 279
Mark Sealy in Conversation with Taous Dahmani

Speculating on the Visual Archive of Climate Change 301
Benedicte Ramade

Afterword 331
Paul Roth

Notes on Contributors 338

Index 345

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