Locating memory : photographic acts

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McAllister, Kirsten Emiko, Contributor.

Kuhn, Annette, Contributor.

Series:

Remapping cultural history Locating memory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Photography--Philosophy--Sources.

Photography.

Photography--Social aspects.

Space and time.

History.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] Berghahn Books 2006

Language Note:

English

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

1-84545-227-5

1-84545-219-4