Acknowledgments vii

Introduction / Elspeth H. Brown and Thy Phu 1

Part I. Touchy-Feely

1. Photography between Desire and Grief: Roland Barthes and F. Holland Day / Shawn Michelle Smith 29

2. Making Sexuality Sensible: Tammy Rae Carland's and Catherine Opie's Queer Aesthetic Forms / Dana Seitler 47

3. Sepia Mutiny: Colonial Photography and Its Others in India / Christopher Pinney 71

4. Skin, Flesh, and the Affective Wrinkles of Civil Rights Photography / Elizabeth Abel 93

Part II. Intimacy and Sentiment

5. Looking Pleasant, Feeling White: The Social Politics of the Photographic Smile / Tanya Sheehan 127

6. Anticipating Citizenship: Chinese Head Tax Photographs / Lily Cho 159

7. Regarding the Pain of the Other: Photography, Famine, and the Transference of Affect / Kimberly Juanita Brown 181

8. Accessible Feelings, Modern Looks: Irene Castle, Ira L. Hill, and Broadway's Affective Economy / Marlis Schweitzer 204

Part III. Affective Archives

9. Trauma in the Archive / Diana Taylor 239

10. School Photos and Their Afterlives / Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer 252

11. Photographing Objects as Queer Archival Practice / Ann Cvetkovich 273

12. Topographies of Feeling: On Catherine Opie's American Football Landscapes / Lisa Cartwright 297

13. The Feeling of Photography, the Feeling of Kinship / David L. Eng 325

Epilogue / Thy Phu and Elspeth H. Brown 349

Bibliography 357

Contributors 385

Index 389