Citizens of Photography: The Camera and the Political Imagination - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 1478020008 ISBN 13: 9781478020004

Casa editrice: Duke University Press, 2023

Riassunto

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 and social media to state and public archives, showing how it points to new destinations in the context of social movements, the aftermath of atrocity and civil war, and the legacies of past injustices. By foregrounding photography’s 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.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Christopher Pinney is Professor of Anthropology and Visual Culture at University College London and author of The Waterless Sea: A Curious History of Mirages.

Naluwembe Binaisa researches mobilities, belonging, and citizenship within Africa.

Vindhya Buthpitiya is Associate Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews.

Konstantinos Kalantzis is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Thessaly.

Ileana L. Selejan is Lecturer in Art History, Culture, and Society at the University of Edinburgh.

Sokphea Young is an honorary Research Fellow at University College London.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Duke University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2023
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1478020008
• ISBN 13: 9781478020004
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 368
• Redattore: Pinney Christopher, Binaisa Naluwembe, Buthpitiya Vindhya, Kalantzis Konstantinos, Selejan Ileana L., Young Sokphea, PhotoDemos Collective
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