Family Frames: Photography, Narrative and Postmemory

Name: Family Frames: Photography, Narrative and Postmemory
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ISBN: 9781470007485

ISBN-10: 1470007487

ISBN-13: 9781470007485

Edition: 2012

Authors: Marianne Hirsch

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Family photographs - snapshots and portraits, affixed to the refrigerator or displayed in gilded frames, crammed into shoeboxes or catalogued in albums - preserve ancestral history and perpetuate memories. Indeed, photography has become the family's primary instrument of self-representation. In Family Frames, Marianne Hirsch uncovers both the deception and the power behind this visual record. Hirsch provocatively explores the photographic conventions for constructing family relationships and discusses artistic strategies for challenging these constructions. When we capture our family photographically, we are often responding to an idealized image. Contemporary artists and writers, Hirsch…

Book details

List price: $16.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Publication date: 2/28/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English