Mass photography : collective histories of everyday life / Annebella Pollen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pollen, Annebella, author.

Series:

International library of visual culture ; 20.

International Library of Visual Culture ; 20

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vernacular photography--Great Britain--History--20th century--Case studies.

Vernacular photography.

Vernacular photography--Social aspects.

Photography--Great Britain--History.

Photography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (254 pages, 8 numbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color).

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.

Place of Publication:

London, England : I.B. Tauris, 2019.

Summary:

With increasingly accessible camera technology available, crowdsourced collective histories of everyday life, harnessing amateur photographers to secure a snapshot of a single day, abound like never before. 'Mass photography' assesses the potential of these popular moment-intime projects by examining their historical predecessors. For the first time, it views the vast photographic collections resulting from such projects, analysing their structures and systems, their aims and objectives, and their claims and promises. The central case study is of 55,000 photographs submitted to One Day for Life in 1987, which aimed, in its own time, to be 'the biggest photographic event the world had ever seen'. 'Mass photography' also makes a new and valuable contribution by taking a fresh look at amateur photographic practice on an unprecedented scale.

Contents:

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Approaching Mass Photography: Methods, Models and Debates

Chapter 1: Days in the life: From Mass Observation to crowdsourcing

Chapter 2: One Day for Life: Charity, competition, archive

Chapter 3: Everyday life and ordinary photography: Documentary hopes and expectations

Chapter 4: Scale and monumentality: Collective identity and imagined community

Chapter 5: Humanism and compassion: Photographic democracy and emotional affect

Chapter 6: Competitive aesthetics: Art, amateurism and ambition

Chapter 7: Visual time capsules: Photographic memory and historical desire

Chapter 8: Legacies, promises and potential

Appendix: Research methods

Index

Notes:

"First published 2016 by I.B. Tauris."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed February 14, 2018).

ISBN:

0-7556-0370-2

1-00-310362-6

1-000-21341-2

1-003-10362-6

1-000-21175-4

0-85772-939-X

0-85772-735-4

9781003103622

OCLC:

1197637435