Photography and migration / edited by Tanya Sheehan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Class of 1891 Department of Arts Fund.

Sheehan, Tanya, 1976- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Immigrants.

Documentary photography.

Photography--Social aspects.

Photography.

Immigrants--Pictorial works.

Emigration and immigration.

Genre:

Pictorial works.

Illustrated works.

Physical Description:

xviii, 240 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2018.

Summary:

Written in the context of unprecedented dislocation and a global refugee crisis, this edited volume thinks through photography's long and complex relationship to human migration. While contemporary media images largely frame migration in terms of trauma, victimhood, and pity, so much more can be said of photography's role in the movement of people around the world. Cameras can document, enable, or control human movement across geographical, cultural, and political divides. Their operators put faces on forced and voluntary migrations, making visible hardships and suffering as well as opportunity and optimism. Photographers include migrating subjects who take pictures for their own consumption, not for international recognition. And photographs themselves migrate with their makers, subjects, and viewers, as the very concept of photography takes on new functions and meanings. Photography and Migration places into conversation media images and other photographs that the contributors have witnessed, collected, or created through their diverse national, regional, and local contexts. Developed across thirteen chapters, this conversation encompasses images, histories, and testimonies offering analysis of new perspectives on photography and migration today.

Contents:

1. Photography and migration: keywords / Tanya Sheehan. Part I. (Im)mobility: 2. Back to America: photography and Japanese Americans from incarceration to resettlement / Jasmine Alinder ; 3. Residential school photographs: the visual rhetoric of Indigenous removal and containment / Carol Williams ; 4. Animating death: stills that migrate / Anne Teresa Demo

Part II. Border: 5. The razor's edge: image and corpo-reality at Europe's borders / Parvati Nair ; 6. Fantasy islands: photography, empathy, and Australia's detention archipelago / Jane Lydon ; 7. The indecisive moment: photoethnography on the undocumented migration trail / Jason De León

Part III. Refugee: 8. Refugee photography and the subject of human interest / Thy Phu ; 9. Feelings, Facebook, forced migration: photographs of refugees and effective spaces online / Marta Zarzycka ; 10. The visual politics of climate refugees / T.J. Demos

Part IV. Diaspora: 11. Photography and diaspora: a roundtable / Anthony W. Lee with Pok Chi Lau, Surendra Lawoti, and Wei Leng Tay ; 12. Intimacy out of doors: landscape, labor, and Chinese diasporic practices of looking / Nadine Attewell ; 13. Kan Azuma and the Japanese Canadian diaspora: perception, identity, and their erosion / Martha Langford.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1891 Department of Arts Fund.

ISBN:

9781138244399

1138244392

9781138244405

1138244406

OCLC:

1019609458