Tina Campt est une théoricienne féministe de la culture visuelle et de l'art contemporain. Son travail explore comment les images et les photographies servent d'outils cruciaux pour comprendre l'histoire et l'identité. Campt enquête sur la formation du genre, de la race et de la diaspora au sein des communautés noires, examinant en particulier comment la culture visuelle aide à l'interprétation du passé comme du présent.
"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.