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.
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Chapter 1. Locating Memory: Photographic Acts - An Introduction
Annette Kuhn and Kirsten Emiko McAllister
PART I: IDENTITIES
Chapter 2. Re-placing History: Critiquing the Colonial Gaze through Photographic Works by Jeffrey Thomas and Greg Staats
Andrea Walsh
Chapter 3. Photography, 'Englishness' and Collective Memory: The National Photographic Record Association, 1897-1910
Elizabeth Edwards
Chapter 4. A Story of Escape: Family Photographs from Japanese Canadian Internment Camps
Kirsten Emiko McAllister
PART II: DIS/LOCATIONS
Chapter 5. The Return of the Aura: Contemporary Writers Look Back at the First World War Photograph
Marlene A. Briggs
Chapter 6. 'There Was Never a Camp Here': Searching for Vapniarka
Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer
Chapter 7. The Space Between: Photography and the Time of Forgetting in the Work of Willie Doherty
Andrew Quick
Chapter 8. Displaced Events: Photographic Memory and Performance Art
Nick Kaye
PART III: REFRAMINGS
Chapter 9. Vietnam War Photography as a Locus of Memory
Patrick Hagopian
Chapter 10. Speaking the Album: An Application of the Oral-photographic Framework
Martha Langford
Chapter 11. Talking Through: This Space Around Four Pictures by Jeff Wall
Jerry Zaslove and Glen Lowry
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