Locating Memory: Photographic Acts

Published by Berghahn Books 2006

Locating Memory

Photographic Acts

Edited by: Annette Kuhn and Kirsten Emiko McAllister

Volume 4 in the series Remapping Cultural History

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781782381990

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

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 McAllister is an Assistant Professor of Communication at Simon Fraser University in Canada. She has written about photographs, visual culture and museum artifacts in West Coast Line, CineAction and Cultural Values, and is currently writing a book on a memorial that marks the site of a World War II Japanese-Canadian internment camp.

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).

Reviews

“…[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 forgetfulness and absence as remembrance and presence.” · H-Net

“…the discursive style of each of the chapters highlights the value of attention to oral histories…There are many chapters worth investigating in this volume, delivering as it does a specific methodological clout for the study of memory and its mutations over time which result in national deliriums, amnesia and all types of cultural disorders.” · Cultural Studies Review

“The successful combination of varied insights, from work on cultural memory and visual culture to analysis of photographic acts, makes this a unique collection of essays, an exemplary model of interdisciplinary scholarship, and a valuable asset to Berghahn Books’ ‘Remapping Cultural History’ series.” · Canadian Journal of Communication

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
1 Locating Memory: Photographic Acts – An Introduction Annette Kuhn and Kirsten Emiko McAllister Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I: Identities
2 Re-placing History: Critiquing the Colonial Gaze through Photographic Works by Jeffrey Thomas and Greg Staats Andrea Walsh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
3 Photography, ‘Englishness’ and Collective Memory: The National Photographic Record Association, 1897–1910 Elizabeth Edwards Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
4 A Story of Escape: Family Photographs from Japanese Canadian Internment Camps Kirsten Emiko McAllister Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
Part II: Dis/Locations
5 The Return of the Aura: Contemporary Writers Look Back at the First World War Photograph Marlene A. Briggs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
6 ‘There Was Never a Camp Here’: Searching for Vapniarka Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
7 The Space Between: Photography and the Time of Forgetting in the Work of Willie Doherty Andrew Quick Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
8 Displaced Events: Photographic Memory and Performance Art Nick Kaye Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
Part III: Reframings
9 Vietnam War Photography as a Locus of Memory Patrick Hagopian Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201
10 Speaking the Album: An Application of the Oral-Photographic Framework Martha Langford Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
11 Talking Through: This Space Around Four Pictures by Jeff Wall Jerry Zaslove and Glen Lowry Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	283

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 300
Keywords: Media Studies; Cultural Studies (General); Film and Television Studies; Memory Studies

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Published: December 1, 2006
ISBN: 9781782381990