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1 English Language Notes 44.2 Fall / Winter 2006 Photography and Literature Special Issue Editor: Karen Jacobs Department of English 226 UCB University of Colorado at Boulder Boulder, Colorado USA

2 English Language Notes Issue 44.2 Fall / Winter 2006 Special Issue Editor Karen Jacobs Editorial Board Adélékè Adéèkó Katherine Eggert Jane Garrity Karen Jacobs John-Michael Rivera Sue Zemka Editorial Staff Patrick Pritchett B. G. Harding Sara Smilko Ann Stockho Copyright 2006, Regents of the University of Colorado. All rights reserved. English Language Notes, under the sponsorship of the University of Colorado, is published twice per year, in Spring/Summer and Fall/ Winter. Institutional subscriptions are $65.00 for the U.S. and Canada, $75.00 for all other countries. Personal subscriptions are $40.00 for the U.S. and Canada, $48.00 for all other countries. Back numbers of ELN beginning with Vol. XX, Number 1 are available for $24.00 each from English Language Notes, Hellems 101, University of Colorado at Boulder, 226 UCB, Boulder, CO Periodicals postage is paid at Boulder, CO. Claims for undelivered subscription numbers will be honored if received within one year of the publication date. No refunds offered for cancellations. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to English Language Notes, University of Colorado at Boulder, 226 UCB, Boulder, CO ISSN USPS Editor English Language Notes Department of English University of Colorado at Boulder 226 UCB Boulder, CO eln@colorado.edu Cover design: Karen Jacobs Printed on recycled paper

3 Table of Contents Introduction: Visual Developments and Narrative Exposures 1 Karen Jacobs, University of Colorado at Boulder karen.jacobs@colorado.edu I. Critical Notes and Interventions The Cut: Instantaneity and the Limits of Photography 9 Elena Gualtieri, University of Sussex e.gualtieri@cornek.demon.co.uk Already the past : The Backward Glance of Victorian Photography 25 Jennifer Green-Lewis, George Washington University jmgl@gwu.edu Cannon and Camera Photography and Colonialism 45 in the Américas Esther Gabara, Duke University egabara@duke.edu The Photograph as History: Richard Wright, Black Power, and 65 Narratives of the Nation Sara Blair, University of Michigan sbblair@umich.edu The Art of Fixing a Shadow: Talbot s Polar Epistemology 73 of Early Photography Laura Saltz, Colby College lsaltz@colby.edu The Cameraless Optic: Anna Atkins and Virginia Woolf 87 Louise E. J. Hornby, University of California, Berkeley lejh@berkeley.edu Photo-negativity: The Visual Rhetoric of James s and Coburn s 101 New York Edition Frontispieces David McWhirter, Texas A&M University d-mcwhirter@neo.tamu.edu

4 iv English Language Notes 44.1 Spring 2006 Visual Memory and Ekphrasis in W. G. Sebald s 117 The Rings of Saturn Silke Horstkotte, University of Leipzig s.horstkotte@uni-leipzig.de II. Photo-text Collaborations Artist Statements: Marco Breuer, Matt Siber, Jim Goldberg 133 Notes, Queries on Marco Breuer s Notes, Queries 135 Jeffrey DeShell, University of Colorado at Boulder jeffrey.deshell@colorado.edu Notes, Queries (photographs) Marco Breuer, Bard College marcobreuer@mindspring.com Photographs from The Untitled Project Matt Siber, Columbia College (Chicago) matt@siberart.com Photographs from The New Europeans (working title) Jim Goldberg, California College of Arts and Crafts solidoro@earthlink.net Digital images from Grammatron Mark Amerika, University of Colorado Mark.Amerika@colorado.edu III. A Conversation on Digital Photography 145 with Mark Amerika VI. ELN Forums Cluster 1: Photography and Race Organizers: Elizabeth Abel and Leigh Raiford, University of California, Berkeley Introduction: Photography and Race 159 Elizabeth Abel and Leigh Raiford University of California, Berkeley Reflecting on Daguerrotypes in the Digital Age 169 Zeynep Devrim Gürsel, University of California, Berkeley zgursel@berkeley.edu

5 Contents v How a Man Was Made a Slave : Contraband, Chiasmus, and the 175 Failure of Visual Abolitionism Maurice Wallace, Duke University mwallace@duke.edu Laughing Ben on The Old Plantation 181 Laura Wexler, Yale University laura.wexler@yale.edu The Half of Whiteness 189 Shawn Michelle Smith, School of the Art Institute of Chicago ssmith8@saic.edu Jars and Stripes: The National Capacity of the Ladies Room 195 Elizabeth Abel, University of California, Berkeley eabel@calmail.berkeley.edu Suturing the Mother: Race, Death, and the Maternal in 203 Barthes Camera Lucida Ruby C. Tapia, Ohio State University tapia.14@osu.edu Notes toward a Photographic Practice of Diaspora 209 Leigh Raiford, University of California, Berkeley lraiford2@gmail.com From the Deluge: Traumatic Iconography and Emergent Visions of 217 Nation in Katrina s Wake Maurice E. Stevens, Ohio State University stevens.368@osu.edu Photography and Race Forum Works Cited 223 Cluster 2: Photography Narrating Trauma Introduction: Photography Narrating Trauma 229 Karen Jacobs, University of Colorado at Boulder On Psycho-Photography : the Case of Abu Ghraib 231 Elissa Marder, Emory University emarder@emory.edu The Female Body as Atrocity Text: The Feminization 243 of the Holocaust at Auschwitz Janet Jacobs, University of Colorado at Boulder janet.jacobs@colorado.edu

6 vi English Language Notes 44.1 Spring 2006 Artist Statement, Photographs from Written in Memory 253 Jeffrey Wolin, Indiana University Decoys: Barrett Watten s Bad History and Michal Rovner 259 Bill Freind, Rowan University Freind@rowan.edu Cluster 3: Toward a Photo-Poetics Introduction: Toward a Photo-Poetics 269 Elizabeth Robinson, University of Colorado at Boulder Elizabeth.Robinson@colorado.edu Poems with Photographs 271 Martha Ronk, Occidental College ronk@oxy.edu Marianne Moore, Photography, and the Self-in-Flux 275 Emily Setina, Davidson College emily.setina@yale.edu Episodes in the History of Photography 283 Jean Gallagher, Polytechnic University jgalla@photon.poly.edu Become What You Must : Trethewey s Poems and 291 Bellocq s Photographs Debora Rindge and Anna Leahy, North Central College darindge@noctrl.edu, amleahy@noctrl.edu Two Poems 307 Gretchen E. Henderson, University of Missouri, Columbia gme495@mizzou.edu V. Review Essay Alchemy of the Word and the Image:Towards a New 313 Iconographics of Postmodern Culture Laurence Petit, Central Connecticut State University laurence.petit@mail.ccsu.edu Contributors 323

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