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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Briggs, Marlene A.,; Edwards, Elizabeth,; Emiko McAllister, Kirsten,; Hagopian, Patrick,; Hirsch, Marianne,; Kaye, Nick,; Kuhn, Annette,; Langford, Martha,; Lowry, Glen,; Quick, Andrew,; Spitzer, Leo,; Walsh, Andrea,; Zaslove, Jerry,
• HerausgeberIn: Kuhn, Annette,; McAllister, Kirsten Emiko,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2006]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Language: English
• Series: Remapping Cultural History ; 4
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (300 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

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 -- Notes on Contributors