1st Edition
Mass Photography Collective Histories of Everyday Life
By Annebella Pollen
Copyright 2015
268 Pages
by
Routledge
268 Pages
by
Routledge
268 Pages
by
Routledge
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With increasingly accessible camera technology, crowdsourced public media projects abound like never before. Such projects often seek to secure a snapshot of a single day in order to establish communities and create visual time capsules for the future. Mass Photography: Collective Histories of Everyday Life assesses the potential of these popular moment-in-time projects by examining their current... Read more
List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Approaching Mass Photography: Methods, Models and DebatesChapter 1: Days in the life: From Mass Observation to crowdsourcingChapter 2: One Day for Life: Charity, competition, archiveChapter 3: Everyday life and ordinary photography: Documentary hopes and expectationsChapter 4: Scale and monumentality: Collective identity and imagined communityChapter 5: Humanism and compassion: Photographic democracy and emotional affectChapter 6: Competitive aesthetics: Art, amateurism and ambitionChapter 7: Visual time capsules: Photographic memory and historical desireChapter 8: Legacies, promises and potentialAppendix: Research methodsIndex
Biography
Annebella Pollen is Principal Lecturer and Academic Programme Leader in the History of Art and Design at the University of Brighton, UK.
