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Locating Memory: Photographic Acts
Annette Kuhn (Ed.)
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Description for Locating Memory: Photographic Acts
Hardback. As a visual medium, the photograph has many culturally resonant properties that it shares with no other medium. This work develops 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. Editor(s): Kuhn, Annette; McAllister, Kirsten. Series: Remapping Cultural History. Num Pages: 300 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AJ. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 571.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Series
Remapping Cultural History
Condition
New
Number of Pages
300
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845452193
SKU
V9781845452193
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99-15
About Annette Kuhn (Ed.)
Annette Kuhn is Professor of Film Studies at Lancaster University, UK, and an editor of the journal Screen. She has written about photographs in The Power of the Image: Essays on Representation and Sexuality (1985) and Family Secrets: Acts of Memory and Imagination (1995). Her most recent book is An Everyday Magic: Cinema and Cultural Memory (2002). Kirsten Emiko ... Read more
Reviews for Locating Memory: Photographic Acts
...[this volume makes a] strong contribution... to rethinking the limitations and failures of photographic representation and to challenging our own interpretive assumptions driven by desires to see and read photographs in certain ways. Rather, as the volume makes clear in unique and varied sites of research, photographic meaning and memory, unstable and in constant flux, are marked as much by ... Read more