1st Edition
The Creatures Time Forgot Photography and Disability Imagery
By David Hevey
Copyright 1992
250 Pages
by
Routledge
250 Pages
by
Routledge
250 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 1992, The Creatures Time Forgot examines the representation of disabled people – in advertising, particularly that produced by disability charities, and in the work of photographers such as Diane Arbus and Gary Winogrand. He shows how such images construct disabled people as ‘creatures,’ the tragic-but-brave objects of photographic gaze, or as the ‘’appy ‘andicapped’ of... Read more
New Preface List of Plates Foreword Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. Social life or medical death? 3. The creatures time forgot: Into the grotto of charity advertising 4. The creatures time forgot: Out of the grotto 5. The enfreakment of photography 6. From angst to anger: the mechanics of idealism 7. Revolt of the species! A theory of subject 8. Towards a disability imagery currency: Cancer and the marks of struggle 9. Towards a disability imagery currency: Little Stephen – infantilism, projection and naturalism in the construction of mental disablement Notes Plates Index
Biography
David Hevey
