UID:
almafu_9960890114802883
Format:
1 online resource (300 p.)
ISBN:
9781782381990
Series Statement:
Remapping Cultural History ; 4
Content:
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.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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List of Illustrations --
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Acknowledgements --
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1 Locating Memory: Photographic Acts – An Introduction --
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Part I: Identities --
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2 Re-placing History: Critiquing the Colonial Gaze through Photographic Works by Jeffrey Thomas and Greg Staats --
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3 Photography, ‘Englishness’ and Collective Memory: The National Photographic Record Association, 1897–1910 --
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4 A Story of Escape: Family Photographs from Japanese Canadian Internment Camps --
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Part II: Dis/Locations --
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5 The Return of the Aura: Contemporary Writers Look Back at the First World War Photograph --
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6 ‘There Was Never a Camp Here’: Searching for Vapniarka --
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7 The Space Between: Photography and the Time of Forgetting in the Work of Willie Doherty --
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8 Displaced Events: Photographic Memory and Performance Art --
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Part III: Reframings --
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9 Vietnam War Photography as a Locus of Memory --
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10 Speaking the Album: An Application of the Oral-Photographic Framework --
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11 Talking Through: This Space Around Four Pictures by Jeff Wall --
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Bibliography --
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Notes on Contributors
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In English.
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ethnology
DOI:
10.1515/9781782381990
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781782381990?locatt=mode:legacy
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781782381990
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781782381990?locatt=mode:legacy
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781782381990