Photography and Social Movements: From the Globalisation of the Movement (1968) to the Movement Against Globalisation (2001) - Rilegato

Memou, Antigoni

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0719087422 ISBN 13: 9780719087424

Casa editrice: Manchester Univ Pr, 2013

Riassunto

Now available for the first time in paperback, Photography and social movements is the first thorough study of photography’s interrelationship with social movements. Focusing on photographic production and dissemination during the student and worker uprising in Paris in May 1968, the Zapatista rebellion, and the anti-capitalist protests in Genoa in 2001, the book argues that at times of political uprisings, photographic documentations, often contradictory, strive to prevail in the public domain, extending the political or economic struggle to a representational level. Photography plays a central role in this representational conflict, by either reproducing or challenging stereotypical narratives of protest. This groundbreaking interdisciplinary analysis of a wide range of practices - amateur and professional - and of previously unpublished archival material will add considerably to students’, researchers’ and scholars’ knowledge of both the visual imagery of political movements and the developing history of photographic representation.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Antigoni Memou is Lecturer in Art History at the University of East London

Dalla quarta di copertina

This is the fist book to examine the previously unstudied interrelation of photography and social movements, focusing on a series of three case studies, namely the student and worker uprising of May 1968 in Paris, the Zapatista indigenous movement in Mexico (since 1994), and the anti-capitalist protests in Genoa (2001). The study is groundbreaking in providing an interdisciplinary analysis of photographs of social movements, drawing upon original archival research and a wide range of photographic practices, both amateur and professional. The book explores how photographs of social movements function in a complex ideological web of transmission of political ideas and how their meaning relates to the way these photographs have been used. It follows the circulation of these photographs within various contexts, such as the communication institutions that served the movements – including magazines, newspapers and the Internet – the mainstream press, and subsequent photographic publications and displays. The book argues that these often contradictory photographic representations, strive to prevail in the public domain, extending the political or economic struggle to a representational level. This representational conflict is central to the book, which examines how photography contributes to the visibility and sustainability of these struggles and how it either challenges or reinforces stereotypical dominant narratives of activism and protest.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Manchester Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0719087422
• ISBN 13: 9780719087424
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 172
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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