Citizens of photography: the camera & the political imagination

"Citizens of Photography explores how photography offers access to forms of citizenship beyond those available through ordinary politics. Through contemporary ethnographic investigations of photographic practice in Nicaragua, Nigeria, Greece, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Cambodia, t...

Ausführliche Beschreibung

Gespeichert in:
Bibliographische Detailangaben
Weitere Verfasser: Pinney, Christopher 1959- (HerausgeberIn), Binaisa, Naluwembe (HerausgeberIn), Buthpitiya, Vindhya (HerausgeberIn), Kalantzis, Konstantinos (HerausgeberIn), Selejan, Ileana (HerausgeberIn), Young, Sokphea (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Durham ; London Duke University Press 2023
Schlagworte:
Online-Zugang:Inhaltsverzeichnis
Zusammenfassung:"Citizens of Photography explores how photography offers access to forms of citizenship beyond those available through ordinary politics. Through contemporary ethnographic investigations of photographic practice in Nicaragua, Nigeria, Greece, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Cambodia, the PhotoDemos Collective traces the resonances between political representation and photographic representation. The authors emphasize photography as lived practice and how photography's performative, transformative, and transgressive possibilities facilitate the articulation of new identities. They analyze photography ranging from family albums to social media to state and public archives, showing how it points to unknown futures and destinations in the context of social movements, the aftermath of atrocity and civil war, and the legacies of past injustices. By foregrounding photography's future-oriented, open-ended, and contingent nature and its ability to subvert and reconfigure conventional political identifications, this volume demonstrates that as much as photography looks to the past, it points to the future, acting in advance of social reality"--
Beschreibung:354 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:9781478020769
9781478020004

Es ist kein Print-Exemplar vorhanden.

Fernleihe Bestellen Achtung: Nicht im THWS-Bestand! Inhaltsverzeichnis