How are photographs understood as narratives? In this book twenty-two original critical essays tackle this overarching question in a series of case studies moving chronologically across the history of photography from the 1840s to the twenty-first century. The contributors explore the intersections of photography with history, memory, autobiography, time, death, mapping, the discourse of Orientalism, digital technology, and representations of race and gender. The essays range in focus from the role of photographic images in the memorialisation of the Holocaust, the Argentine "Dirty War", and Japanese American internment camps through Man Ray's classic image "Noire et blanche" and Nan Goldin's "The Ballad of Sexual Dependency" to the function of family albums in nineteenth-century England and America.
- ISBN10 0826328253
- ISBN13 9780826328250
- Publish Date 9 April 2003
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 19 December 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of New Mexico Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 288
- Language English