Locating Memory : : Photographic Acts / / ed. by Annette Kuhn, Kirsten Emiko McAllister.

As a visual medium, the photograph has many culturally resonant properties that it shares with no other medium. These essays develop innovative cultural strategies for reading, re-reading and re-using photographs, as well as for (re)creating photographs and other artworks and evoke varied sites of m...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2006]
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Year of Publication:2006
Language:English
Series:Remapping Cultural History ; 4
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Physical Description:1 online resource (300 p.)
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Other title:Frontmatter --
Contents --
List of Illustrations --
Acknowledgements --
1 Locating Memory: Photographic Acts – An Introduction --
Part I: Identities --
2 Re-placing History: Critiquing the Colonial Gaze through Photographic Works by Jeffrey Thomas and Greg Staats --
3 Photography, ‘Englishness’ and Collective Memory: The National Photographic Record Association, 1897–1910 --
4 A Story of Escape: Family Photographs from Japanese Canadian Internment Camps --
Part II: Dis/Locations --
5 The Return of the Aura: Contemporary Writers Look Back at the First World War Photograph --
6 ‘There Was Never a Camp Here’: Searching for Vapniarka --
7 The Space Between: Photography and the Time of Forgetting in the Work of Willie Doherty --
8 Displaced Events: Photographic Memory and Performance Art --
Part III: Reframings --
9 Vietnam War Photography as a Locus of Memory --
10 Speaking the Album: An Application of the Oral-Photographic Framework --
11 Talking Through: This Space Around Four Pictures by Jeff Wall --
Bibliography --
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Summary:As a visual medium, the photograph has many culturally resonant properties that it shares with no other medium. These essays develop innovative cultural strategies for reading, re-reading and re-using photographs, as well as for (re)creating photographs and other artworks and evoke varied sites of memory in contemporary landscapes: from sites of war and other violence through the lost places of indigenous peoples to the once-familiar everyday places of home, family, neighborhood and community. Paying close attention to the settings in which such photographs are made and used--family collections, public archives, museums, newspapers, art galleries--the contributors consider how meanings in photographs may be shifted, challenged and renewed over time and for different purposes--from historical inquiry to quests for personal, familial, ethnic and national identity.
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9781782381990
9783110998283
DOI:10.1515/9781782381990?locatt=mode:legacy
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Annette Kuhn, Kirsten Emiko McAllister.