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Author : Elizabeth Edwards
Release : 2004
Genre : Photography
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Book Rating : 410/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Photographs Objects Histories by : Elizabeth Edwards
Download or read book Photographs Objects Histories written by Elizabeth Edwards. This book was released on 2004. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the idea that photographs are objects as well as images of objects, and that this materiality is integral to their meaning and use.
Author : Elizabeth Edwards
Release : 2005
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Book Synopsis Photographs, Objects, Histories by : Elizabeth Edwards
Download or read book Photographs, Objects, Histories written by Elizabeth Edwards. This book was released on 2005. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elizabeth Edwards
Release : 2021-01-07
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 294/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Raw Histories by : Elizabeth Edwards
Download or read book Raw Histories written by Elizabeth Edwards. This book was released on 2021-01-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photographs have had an integral and complex role in many anthropological contexts, from fieldwork to museum exhibitions. This book explores how approaching anthropological photographs as 'history' can offer both theoretical and empirical insights into these roles. Photographs are thought to make problematic history because of their ambiguity and 'rawness'. In short, they have too many meanings. The author refutes this prejudice by exploring, through a series of case studies, precisely the potential of this raw quality to open up new perspectives. Taking the nature of photography as her starting point, the author argues that photographs are not merely pictures of things but are part of a dynamic and fluid historical dialogue, which is active not only in the creation of the photograph but in its subsequent social biography in archive and museum spaces, past and present. In this context, the book challenges any uniform view of anthropological photography and its resulting archives. Drawing on a variety of examples, largely from the Pacific, the book demonstrates how close readings of photographs reveal not only western agendas, but also many layers of differing historical and cross-cultural experiences. That is, photographs can 'spring leaks' to show an alternative viewpoint. These themes are developed further by examining the dynamics of photographs and issues around them as used by contemporary artists and curators and presented to an increasingly varied public. This book convincingly demonstrates photographs' potential to articulate histories other than those of their immediate appearances, a potential that can no longer be neglected by scholars and institutions.
Author : Karen Strassler
Release : 2010-04-20
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 546/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Refracted Visions by : Karen Strassler
Download or read book Refracted Visions written by Karen Strassler. This book was released on 2010-04-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young couple poses before a painted backdrop depicting a modern building set in a volcanic landscape; a college student grabs his camera as he heads to a political demonstration; a man poses stiffly for his identity photograph; amateur photographers look for picturesque images in a rural village; an old woman leafs through a family album. In Refracted Visions, Karen Strassler argues that popular photographic practices such as these have played a crucial role in the making of modern national subjects in postcolonial Java. Contending that photographic genres cultivate distinctive ways of seeing and positioning oneself and others within the affective, ideological, and temporal location of Indonesia, she examines genres ranging from state identification photos to pictures documenting family rituals. Oriented to projects of selfhood, memory, and social affiliation, popular photographs recast national iconographies in an intimate register. They convey the longings of Indonesian national modernity: nostalgia for rural idylls and “tradition,” desires for the trappings of modernity and affluence, dreams of historical agency, and hopes for political authenticity. Yet photography also brings people into contact with ideas and images that transcend and at times undermine a strictly national frame. Photography’s primary practitioners in the postcolonial era have been Chinese Indonesians. Acting as cultural brokers who translate global and colonial imageries into national idioms, these members of a transnational minority have helped shape the visual contours of Indonesian belonging even as their own place within the nation remains tenuous. Refracted Visions illuminates the ways that everyday photographic practices generate visual habits that in turn give rise to political subjects and communities.
Author : Christopher Pinney
Release : 2003-04-24
Genre : Art
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Book Rating : 131/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Photography's Other Histories by : Christopher Pinney
Download or read book Photography's Other Histories written by Christopher Pinney. This book was released on 2003-04-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richly illustrated with over 100 images, this volume explores the role of photography in raising historical consciousness from a variety of geographic, cultural, and historical perspectives. 128 photos.
