Photography and the Optical Unconscious

Acknowledgments  vii
Introduction / Shawn Michelle Smith and Sharon Sliwinski  1
1. Photography's Weimar-Era Proliferatino and Walter Benjamin's Optical Unconscious / Andrés Mario Zervigón  32
2. "A Hiding Place in Waking Dreams": David Octavius Hill, Robert Adamson, and Walter Benjamin's "Little History of Photography" / Shawn Michelle Smith  48
3. Freud: The Photographic Apparatus / Sarah Kofman  75
4. "To Adopt": Freud, Photography, and the Optical Unconscious / Jonathan Fardy  81
5. The Politics of Contemplation / Zoe Leonard and Elisabeth Lebovici  93
6. Freud, Saturn, and the Power of Hypnosis / Mary Bergstein  104
7. On the Couch / Mignon Nixon  134
8. Vision's Unseen: On Sovereignty, Race, and the Optical Unconscious / Mark Reinhardt  174
9. Sligo Heads / Kristan Horton  223
10. Developing Historical Negatives: The Colonial Photographic Archive as Optical Unconscious / Gabrielle Moser  229
11. The Purloined Image / Laura Wexler  264
12. The Vancouver Carts: A Brief Mémoire / Kelly Wood  281
13. Vietnamese Photography and the Look of Revolution / Thy Phu  286
14. Shooting in the Dark: A Note on the Photographic Imagination / Sharon Sliwinski  321
15. Slow / Terri Kapsalis  339
Contributors  363
Index  367

Shawn Michelle Smith and Sharon Sliwinski, editors