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Author_Leigh Raiford
belonging
Black habits of photography
Black internationalism
Black Panther Party
Black radical tradition
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curatorial practice
Dawoud Bey
diaspora
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Eslanda Goode Robeson
ethnographic photography
family photography
family photography album
freedom
home
James Van Der Zee
Jr.
June Jordan
Kathleen Neal Cleaver
Marcus Garvey
Paul Robeson
photography
portraiture
Sadie Barnette
Southern Africa
stereoscopic
travel
Universal Negro Improvement Association UNIA
Product details
- ISBN 9781478033318
- Weight: 445g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 31 May 2026
- Publisher: Duke University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In When Home Is a Photograph, Leigh Raiford asks how Black people use photography to make home in the world. Raiford focuses on a selection of Black American activists and artists, including Marcus Garvey, James Van Der Zee, Eslanda Goode Robeson, and Kathleen Neal Cleaver to explore the complex relationship between racialized subjects and the medium of photography. As they traveled the world for study, for work, for pleasure, or for survival, these artists and activists took and collected photographs to express their political platforms and personal sense of self. Raiford considers the everyday image-making practices that these Black Americans employed to improve the condition of Black lives globally by imagining, identifying, inhabiting, leaving, defending, and destroying “home.” When Home Is a Photograph shows how these figures did not merely utilize photography to emplace themselves in the world—they demonstrated how the use of photography is itself a way to mediate one’s relationship to the world.
Leigh Raiford is Professor of African American and African Diaspora studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Her most recent book is Collaboration: A Potential History of Photography.
