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School Photos in Liquid Time: Reframing Difference

By Marianne Hirsch , Leo Spitzer

Book information

Publisher
University of Washington Press
Year
2019
ISBN
0295746548, 9780295746548
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
20 MB (20793307 bytes)
Series
Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies
Pages
264\0
Topic
Art Photo
Time added
2021-10-24 05:54:00

Description

From clandestine images of Jewish children isolated in Nazi ghettos and Japanese American children incarcerated in camps to images of Native children removed to North American boarding schools, classroom photographs of schoolchildren are pervasive even in repressive historical and political contexts. School Photos in Liquid Time offers a closer look at this genre of vernacular photography, tracing how photography advances ideologies of social assimilation as well as those of hierarchy and exclusion. In Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer's deft analysis, school photographs reveal connections between the histories of persecuted subjects in different national and imperial centers. Exploring what this ubiquitous and mundane but understudied genre tells us about domination as well as resistance, the authors examine school photos as documents of social life and agents of transformation. They place them in dialogue with works by contemporary artists who reframe, remediate, and elucidate them. Ambitious yet accessible, School Photos in Liquid Time presents school photography as a new access point into institutions of power, revealing the capacity of past and present actors to disrupt and reinvent them.

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