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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Locating Memory: Photographic Acts
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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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781845452278 |
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| Publisher: | Berghahn Books |
| Publication date: | 12/01/2006 |
| Series: | Remapping Cultural History , #4 |
| Edition description: | New Edition |
| Pages: | 300 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.63(d) |
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