Locating Memory : Photographic Acts
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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.
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- ISBN-13: 9781845452278
- ISBN-10: 1845452275
- Publisher: Berghahn Books
- Publish Date: December 2006
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.63 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.89 pounds
- Page Count: 300
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