1st Edition

Exposed Memories Family Pictures in Private and Collective Memory

Edited By Hedvig Turai, Zsófia Bán Copyright 2010
206 Pages
by Central European University Press

206 Pages
by Central European University Press

Within the larger context of cultural memory, family pictures have become one of the most intriguing multi- and interdisciplinary fields of investigation in the past decade. This field brings together artists working in different media (e.g. documentary photography and film, photo-based painting and installations, digital art, collage, montage, comics, etc.) as well as academics, critics,... Read more
Introduction, Photo as Autobiography, Photo and Text, Private and Public Archives, Family Album, Object/Photo/Reality, Contributors

Biography

Hedvig Turai is an art historian and critic.

Zsófia Bán is Associate Professor of American Studies at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest