Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare

In <i>Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare</i> 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. Offering readings of the use of photography in the anti-lynching movement the civil rights movement and the black power movement <i>Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare</i> focuses on key transformations in technology society and politics to understand the evolution of photography’s deployment in capturing white oppression black resistance and African American life.