Locating Memory: Photographic Acts

✍ Scribed by Annette Kuhn (editor); Kirsten Emiko McAllister (editor)

• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 300
• Series: Remapping Cultural History; 4
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
1 Locating Memory: Photographic Acts – An Introduction
Part I: Identities
2 Re-placing History: Critiquing the Colonial Gaze through Photographic Works by Jeffrey Thomas and Greg Staats
3 Photography, ‘Englishness’ and Collective Memory: The National Photographic Record Association, 1897–1910
4 A Story of Escape: Family Photographs from Japanese Canadian Internment Camps
Part II: Dis/Locations
5 The Return of the Aura: Contemporary Writers Look Back at the First World War Photograph
6 ‘There Was Never a Camp Here’: Searching for Vapniarka
7 The Space Between: Photography and the Time of Forgetting in the Work of Willie Doherty
8 Displaced Events: Photographic Memory and Performance Art
Part III: Reframings
9 Vietnam War Photography as a Locus of Memory
10 Speaking the Album: An Application of the Oral-Photographic Framework
11 Talking Through: This Space Around Four Pictures by Jeff Wall
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors