Photography and social movements : from the globalisation of the movement (1968) to the movement against globalisation (2001) / Antigoni Memou.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Memou, Antigoni, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Documentary photography--History.

Documentary photography.

Photography--Social aspects.

Photography.

Social movements--History.

Social movements.

History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 172 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2013.

Summary:

This is the first book to examine the previously unstudied interrelation of photography and social movements, focusing on a series of three case studies, namely the student and worker uprising of May 1968 in Paris-the Zapatista indigenous movement in Mexico (since 1994), and the anti-capitalist protests in Genoa (2001). The study is groundbreaking in providing an interdisciplinary analysis of photographs of social movements, drawing upon original archival research and a wide range of photographic practices, both amateur and professional. The book explores how photographs of social movements function in a complex ideological web of transmission of political ideas and how their meaning relates to the way these photographs have been used. It follows the circulation of these photographs within various contexts, such as the communication institutions that served the movements - including magazines, newspapers and the internet - the mainstream press, and subsequent photographic publications and displays. The author argues that these often contradictory photographic representations strive to prevail in the public domain, extending the political or economic struggle to a representational level. This representational conflict is central to the book, which examines how photography contributes to the visibility and sustainability of these struggles and how it either challenges or reinforces stereotypical dominant narratives of activism and protest. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I

1 Toute la presse est toxique: May 1968 in the mainstream French press 15

2 The Zapatistas and the media spectacle 32

3 'When it bleeds, it leads': death and press photography in the anti-capitalist protests in Genoa 2001 50

Part II

4 The student movement of May 1968: activist photography, self-reflection and antinomies 69

5 Zapatistas, photography and the internet or winning the game of visibility 86

6 Carnival Against Capitalism: global days of action and photographs of resistance 100

Part III

7 May '68 in the museum 115

8 The End of Silence: Antonio Turok's photographs of the Zapatistas 128

9 Joel Sternfeld's anti-photojournalistic images of Genoa 145.

ISBN:

9780719087424

0719087422

OCLC:

866836533