On Seeing
On Seeing is a new publication series devoted to visual literacy. Publications foreground the political agency, critical insight, and social impact inscribed in visuality and representation. Centering underrepresented perspectives and understudied questions, these books articulate complex ideas about how we see, comprehend, and participate in the visual world.
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Mortevivum
Photography and the Politics of the Visual
ISBN: 9780262547642
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 6, 2024
A powerful examination of the unsettling history of photography and its fraught relationship to global antiblackness.
Black Elegies
Meditations on the Art of Mourning
ISBN: 9780262551724
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 18, 2025
A poignant, unflinching study of black grief as a form of elegy found in visual art, music, literature—everywhere, if you know how to see it.
Mortevivum
Photography and the Politics of the Visual
ISBN: 9780262547642
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 6, 2024
A powerful examination of the unsettling history of photography and its fraught relationship to global antiblackness.
Black Elegies
Meditations on the Art of Mourning
ISBN: 9780262551724
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 18, 2025
A poignant, unflinching study of black grief as a form of elegy found in visual art, music, literature—everywhere, if you know how to see it.