Photography and Social Movements
Antigoni Memou
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Description for Photography and Social Movements
The first thorough study of photography's interrelationship with social movements Num Pages: 176 pages, 33 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AJ; JHB; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 161 x 235 x 20. Weight in Grams: 448.
Now available for the first time in paperback, Photography and social movements is the first thorough study of photography’s interrelationship with social movements. Focusing on photographic production and dissemination during the student and worker uprising in Paris in May 1968, the Zapatista rebellion, and the anti-capitalist protests in Genoa in 2001, the book argues that at times of political uprisings, photographic documentations, often contradictory, strive to prevail in the public domain, extending the political or economic struggle to a representational level. Photography plays a central role in this representational conflict, by either reproducing or challenging stereotypical narratives of protest. This ... Read more
Now available for the first time in paperback, Photography and social movements is the first thorough study of photography’s interrelationship with social movements. Focusing on photographic production and dissemination during the student and worker uprising in Paris in May 1968, the Zapatista rebellion, and the anti-capitalist protests in Genoa in 2001, the book argues that at times of political uprisings, photographic documentations, often contradictory, strive to prevail in the public domain, extending the political or economic struggle to a representational level. Photography plays a central role in this representational conflict, by either reproducing or challenging stereotypical narratives of protest. This ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719087424
SKU
V9780719087424
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About Antigoni Memou
Antigoni Memou is Lecturer in Art History at the University of East London -- .
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