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.
| ISBN: | 9781845452278 |
| Publication date: | 1st December 2006 |
| Author: | Annette Kuhn, Kirsten Emiko McAllister |
| Publisher: | Berghahn Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 240 pages |
| Series: | Remapping Cultural History |
| Genres: |
Cultural studies Photography and photographs |
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.
Locating Memory features in the following genres: Cultural studies, Photography and photographs
Locating Memory is available in Paperback
Locating Memory was written by Annette Kuhn, Kirsten Emiko McAllister and published by Berghahn Books
Locating Memory has 240 pages
Yes it is part of Remapping Cultural History series