Maurice Berger
Author
Series
Issues in cultural theory volume 7
Publisher
Center for Art and Visual Culture, University of Maryland Baltimore County
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
In 1955, shortly after Emmett Till was murdered by white supremacists in Mississippi, his grieving mother distributed to the press a gruesome photograph of his mutilated corpse. Asked why she would do this, she explained that by witnessing with their own eyes the brutality of segregation and racism, Americans would be more likely to support the cause of racial justice. "Let the world see what I've seen," was her reply. The publication of the photograph...