Locating Memory: Photographic Acts

Annette Kuhn (Curatore)

Kirsten Emiko McAllister (Curatore)

Berghahn Books, 2006

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.

• Curatore: Annette Kuhn, Kirsten Emiko McAllister
• Editore: Berghahn Books
• Collana: Remapping Cultural History
• Anno: 2006
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 300 p.
• Dimensioni: 229 x 152 mm
• Peso: 404 gr.
• EAN: 9781845452278

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