Tina Campt is a feminist theorist of visual culture and contemporary art. Her work explores how images and photographs serve as crucial tools for understanding history and identity. Campt investigates the formation of gender, race, and diaspora within Black communities, particularly examining how visual culture aids in the interpretation of both the past and the present.
"A groundbreaking, radical new study of the transformative cultural, aesthetic, & political shifts initiated by black contemporary artists including Arthur Jafa, Deanna Lawson, Dawoud Bey, etc. who are dismantling the white gaze and demanding that we see-and see blackness in particular-anew"-- Provided by publisher
Campt explores the affective resonances of two archives of Black European photographs for those pictured, their families, and the community. Image Matters looks at photograph collections of four Black German families taken between 1900 and the end of World War II and a set of portraits of Afro- Caribbean migrants to Britain taken at a photographic studio in Birmingham between 1948 and 1960.