| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 228 pages) |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: 1. That Other Woman: The Woman Who Accompanied the Cold War Tourist to Paris / Martha Langford -- 2. Memory, Subjectivity and Maternal Histories in Un'Ora Sola Ti Vorrei (2002), Histoire d'un Secret (2003) and On the Border (2012) / Lizzie Thynne -- 3. Soviet Heroes and Jewish Victims: One Family's Memories of the Second World War / Olga Shevchenko -- 4. Visual Meditations: An Island in Time -- (Re)interpreting Family Albums and Oral Histories / Suze Adams -- 5. Performing Familial Memory in Against / Sally Waterman -- 6. In and Out of Focus: Visualizing Loss through the Family Album / Jacqueline Butler -- 7. (Re)constructed Self in the Safe Space of the Family Photograph: Chino Otsuka's Imagine Finding Me (2005) / Deborah Schultz -- 8. Place for Memory: Family Photo Collections, Social Media and the Imaginative Reconstruction of the Working-class Neighbourhood / Richard Lowell MacDonald -- 9. Wanted -- New Custodians for Family Photographs: Vernacular Photographs on eBay and the Album as Artwork / Nicky Bird -- 10. Dislocating Memory: Family Photographs in Story-Centred Museums / Silke Arnold-de Simine |
| Summary |
Whether pasted into an album, framed or shared on social media, the family photograph simultaneously offers a private and public insight into the identity and past of its subject. Long considered a model for understanding individual identity, the idea of the family has increasingly formed the basis for exploring collective pasts and cultural memory. Picturing the Family investigates how visual representations of the family reveal both personal and shared histories, evaluating the testimonial and social value of photography and film.Combining academic and creative, practice-based approaches, this collection of essays introduces a dialogue between scholars and artists working at the intersection between family, memory and visual media. Many of the authors are both researchers and practitioners, whose chapters engage with their own work and that of others, informed by critical frameworks. From the act of revisiting old, personal photographs to the sale of family albums through internet auction, the twelve chapters each present a different collection of photographs or artwork as case studies for understanding how these visual representations of the family perform memory and identity. Building on extensive research into family photographs and memory, the book considers the implications of new cultural forms for how the family is perceived and how we relate to the past. While focusing on the forms of visual representation, above all photographs, the authors also reflect on the contextualization and'remediation'of photography in albums, films, museums and online |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
| Subject |
Photography of families.
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Memory -- Sociological aspects.
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COMPUTERS -- Digital Media -- Photography.
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PHOTOGRAPHY -- Reference.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Imaging Systems.
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Memory -- Sociological aspects
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Photography of families
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Arnold-de Simine, Silke, editor
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Leal, Joanne, editor
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| LC no. |
2017038901 |
| ISBN |
9781474283618 |
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1474283616 |
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9781474283632 |
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1474283632 |
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