ISBN:
9780295746531
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9780295746548
Language:
English
Pages:
XI, 231 Seiten
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Illustrationen
Year of publication:
2019
Series Statement:
The Samuel & Althea Stroum lectures in Jewish studies
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Hirsch, Marianne, author School photos in liquid time
DDC:
779/.25
Keywords:
School photography Social aspects
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Children of minorities Portraits
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Assimilation (Sociology)
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Marginality, Social
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Race relations
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Ethnic relations
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Porträtfotografie
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Gruppenbildnis
;
Schüler
;
Juden
;
Vertreibung
;
Geschichte 1941-1956
Abstract:
Incongruous images -- Why school photos? -- Imperial frames -- Framing difference -- Exclusionary frames -- The "disobedient gaze."
Abstract:
"Inspired by pictures of Jewish schoolchildren taken in ghettos and internment camps during World War II, Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer's School Photos in Liquid Time: Reframing Difference offers the first extended critical analysis of school photography. Comparing their own childhood snapshots from 1950s Romania and Bolivia with those produced in other historical spaces of persecution, from Native American boarding schools to missionary classrooms in Sierra Leone, they ask what the ubiquitous but understudied genre can tell us about power and domination. They interweave their "connective" history with examinations of contemporary photographic artwork to demonstrate how school photographs elucidate the contingency -- as much as the final product -- of assimilation and exclusion. Ambitious yet accessible, School Photographs in Liquid Time presents school photography as a new access point into institutions of power, one that reveals their capacity be disrupted by past and present actors"--
Note:
"A Samuel and Althea Stroum book."
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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