Publications [#320132] of Kimberly K. Lamm

Journal Articles

1. Lamm, K. "Between the open and the hidden: Clothing, segregation, and the feminine counter-archive in the photographs of Gordon Parks." Critical Arts 29:sup1 (December, 2015): 134-149. [doi]

   Abstract:
   In this article I analyse the photographs Gordon Parks produced for the Life photo-essay The restraints: open and hidden, which depicts Jim Crow segregation in Mobile, Alabama. Drawing on Jacques Derrida's (1996) attention to the archival unconscious and Hortense Spillers (1987) concept of ungendering, I argue that Parks photographs of women's and girls clothing manifest his background in fashion photography and highlight the counter- archival pressure black femininity places on Jim Crow segregation and the photo-essay itself.