Co-editor
Duke University Press, Durham and London, 2014

How does the analytic of feeling transform our understanding of photography? In what ways do photos influence affect theorists? Feeling Photography is a book, co-edited by Thy Phu and Elspeth Brown, that explores the affective life of images.

This groundbreaking book exposes how civility shapes discourses of citizenship for Asian American subjects. Focusing on works by Arnold Genthe, Toyo Miyatake, Nick Ut, among many others, Picturing Model Citizens traces the cultural work of civility — as it unfolds in photography — from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century.