1st Edition

Double Exposure Memory and Photography

By Olga Shevchenko Copyright 2014
252 Pages
by Routledge

254 Pages
by Routledge

252 Pages
by Routledge

Over the past decade, historians and sociologists have increasingly used visual materials, in particular photographs, in their work. This volume brings together historians, sociologists, anthropologists, and media and visual scholars to articulate how photography, as a practice and as a visual medium, can provide insights into national memory, collective identities, and the historical... Read more
Acknowledgments 1. Memory and Photography: An Introduction - Olga ShevchenkoI - Public Memories 2. Willy Brandt in Warsaw: Event or Image? History or Memory? - Jeffrey K. Olick 3. A Photo That Matters: The Memorial Clock in Bologna and Its Invented Tradition - Anna Lisa Tota 4. Framing Zarqawi: Afterimages, Headshots, and Body Politics in a Digital Age - Zeynep Devrim Gursel 5. Photography and the Event - Martin JayII - Private Archives 6. The Significance of Memory in Japanese Family Photography - Richard Chalfen 7. Soviet Past in Domestic Photography: Events, Evidence, Erasure - Oksana Sarkisova and Olga ShevchenkoIII - Photographic Sociabilities 8. Out and About: Photography, Topography, and Historical Imagination - Elizabeth Edwards 9. Flickr: Photo Sharing Sites between Collective and Connective Memory - Jose van DijckList of Contributors Index

Biography

Olga Shevchenko