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Palaeoliths and Pareidolia: Photography and Archaeological Stone Collecting From the Discovery of Deep Time to the Eolith Controversies Photography and Culture Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Helen Wickstead
Photography played an important part in the revelation of deep time in the later nineteenth century, leading to the invention of a new epoch – the palaeolithic. This article investigates how photog...
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‘How Will We Be Remembered?’: Irene Shwachman’s West End Photographs Photography and Culture Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Lauren Graves
This article examines The Boston Document, a documentary photography project that chronicled urban renewal in Boston from 1959–1968. The project was created by a largely unknown yet crucial documen...
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Addressing Uncomfortable Emotions through the Photo-Exhibition Leaving and Waving by Deanna Dikeman Photography and Culture Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Simona Palladino, Mariangela D'Ambrosio, Paola Mitra
Photography conveys emotions. However, while a great deal of attention has been given to the artists’ point of view, only rarely these have been explored from the perspective of the viewers of phot...
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#Ingrid Photography and Culture Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Emma Godfrey Pigott
Published in Photography and Culture (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Photography and 21st-Century Migration Photography and Culture Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Sarah Bassnett, Blessy Augustine
Published in Photography and Culture (Vol. 16, No. 3, 2023)
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The Francis Effect and the Significance of Gestures and Images Photography and Culture Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Blessy Augustine
Published in Photography and Culture (Vol. 16, No. 3, 2023)
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Beauty to the Modernist Eyes: Katsura Imperial Villa as an Experience of Modernism and Modernity Photography and Culture Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Sa Xiao
This article explores a 1960 book project on the Japanese Imperial Palace and Garden complex Katsura, entitled Katsura: Tradition and Creation in Japanese Architecture (1960), in collaboration with...
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Nadar’s Aerial Photography: Science, Ecstasy, Projection Photography and Culture Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Sangwoo Park
Félix Nadar is the legendary inventor of aerial photography, the origin of the aerial images which are widely used today in various fields. Focusing on his aerial photography and aerial experience,...
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The Beach, the Sea, the Fence: Spain’s Necro-Frontier and Humanitarian Photography Photography and Culture Pub Date : 2024-01-26 Juan F. Egea
The maritime border separating Europe from Africa has become the backdrop for a photojournalism that bears witness to the suffering and death of thousands of migrants since the early 1980s. The bea...
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“And This Was the Exhibition”: Launderettes, Buses and Canteens as Gallery Spaces in 1970s Britain Photography and Culture Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Mathilde Bertrand
In the absence of photographic galleries in Britain in the early 1970s, aspiring documentary photographers turned to ordinary places to show their work, transforming launderettes, buses, canteens a...
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Making Meaning across the Frame: The McKenzie Heritage Picture Archive at Black Cultural Archives Photography and Culture Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Anita J. McKenzie, Rhoda Adum Boateng
This article begins by providing a short history of the national heritage centre Black Cultural Archives, located in Brixton, London and founded in 1981. Also discussed are the social and political...
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Family, Diaspora, and the Politics of Care in Griselda San Martin’s The Wall, 2015-16 Photography and Culture Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Sarah Bassnett
This article examines a series of photographs by Griselda San Martin, a Spanish journalist and documentary photographer based in New York City and Mexico City. The series focuses on the experiences...
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Exhibiting Migration Stories: An Exploration of Poetics in Moysés Zuñiga’s Photography Photography and Culture Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Anahí González Terán
This article discusses the exhibition Migration Stories Whispered in My Ear/Me Susurran Al Oído Historias de Migrantes, shown at Western University’s McIntosh Gallery in London, Ontario, Canada, in...
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Coming and Going Photography and Culture Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Nicoló Giudice
Published in Photography and Culture (Vol. 16, No. 2, 2023)
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‘Viewing the Landscape’: Views from Expatria, Landscape Traditions and Staying Outside Photography and Culture Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Ioannis Galanopoulos Papavasileiou
The creative research project Views from Expatria: Photographing Place and the Self in transience by Dr Ioannis Galanopoulos Papavasileiou examines human displacement, identity, the role of place a...
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Evelyn Hofer and the “Moment of Danger” Photography and Culture Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Paul Carpenter
Published in Photography and Culture (Vol. 16, No. 2, 2023)
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Photography and Remote Warfare: An Inquiry into the Visual Representation of Cyber in News Images Photography and Culture Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Esther Gabrielle Kersley
While the importance of new technologies for warfare has only grown, the images used to represent them have remained static. Online image searches of ‘cyber attacks’, ‘cyber security’ or ‘cyber war...
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Lúa Ribeira, Subida al cielo (Ascent into Heaven), 17.03.2023 Until 02.07.2023, Kutxa Kultur Artegunea Donostia—San Sebastian, Spain Photography and Culture Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Mark Durden
Published in Photography and Culture (Vol. 16, No. 2, 2023)
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Mother, Photography, Reproduction: A Note on Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974 Photography and Culture Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Miyabi Goto
Hara Kazuo’s seminal documentary film, Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974, actively disturbs presumed boundaries and, in so doing, foregrounds the centrality of performance in documentary filmmak...
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Snapshots of Empire Games Journeys: The Vernacular Photography of Peter Heatly and the 1950 Scotland Team Photography and Culture Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Richard Haynes
Sir Peter Heatly is a former Scottish diver who competed in three British Empire Games and one Olympic Games. On all his journeys to major competitions, he took personal photographs and kept publis...
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Migratory Technology: Piracy and Bazaar Culture in India and Nepal Photography and Culture Pub Date : 2023-11-24 Sarah Bassnett, Ishita Tiwary
This interview between film and media scholar Ishita Tiwary and art historian Sarah Bassnett was conducted over Zoom in February 2023. It focuses on Tiwary’s research on the migration of photograph...
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A Portfolio from the Series Drift Alignment Photography and Culture Pub Date : 2023-10-05 Andrew O’Brien
This portfolio and artist statement addresses the ongoing photographic series Drift Alignment, which explores the historical and contemporary conditions along the US-Mexico border. The work examine...
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From the Editors Photography and Culture Pub Date : 2023-08-23 Adam Brett
Published in Photography and Culture (Vol. 16, No. 1, 2023)
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Being Present: Michael Tsegaye in Addis Ababa Photography and Culture Pub Date : 2023-08-23 Carol Magee
Abstract This essay examines Michael Tsegaye’s series Future Memories and Chasms of the Soul, underscoring not just the socio-political context of the work, but the possibilities of photography itself. Addressing the displacement occurring when neighborhoods and cemeteries were razed to accommodate urban redevelopment in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the photographs tell the stories of these events, making
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Negative/Positive: A History of Photography Photography and Culture Pub Date : 2023-08-23 Sean Willcock
Published in Photography and Culture (Vol. 16, No. 1, 2023)
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The Narrative across Photographs: The Silk Roads Photography Gallery Photography and Culture Pub Date : 2023-07-17 Xuan Zhang, Shaohan Wang
Abstract To support the Silk Roads Transboundary Serial Nomination Project, the International Conservation Center-Xi’an developed the Silk Roads Archive and Information Management System (AIMS), with a primary function of exploring SR’s transcultural narrative. Focusing on the historical and contemporary photographs documented in AIMS, this essay introduces the different types of photographs from different
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Indigenous Cultures and Post-Mortem Photography Photography and Culture Pub Date : 2023-07-13 Byron Rangiwai, Dion Enari
Abstract This paper explores the differences between Māori and Samoan approaches to post-mortem photography. This paper will show that Māori consider the notion of post-mortem photography as offensive, while for some Samoans, post-mortem photography is acceptable. This article emerges due to the scarcity of research on post-mortem photography in Indigenous communities. We analyze the underlying beliefs
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Photography and Environmental Activism: Visualising the Struggle Against Industrial Pollution Photography and Culture Pub Date : 2023-07-04 Siobhan Angus
Published in Photography and Culture (Vol. 16, No. 1, 2023)
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“¡No Nos Desapareceremos!”: Artists Call’s Visual Solidarity with Central America Photography and Culture Pub Date : 2023-07-04 Erina Duganne
Published in Photography and Culture (Vol. 16, No. 1, 2023)
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Rediscovering the Work of Sham Sundar Das: A Look at the Photographer’s Unrecognized Legacy Photography and Culture Pub Date : 2023-05-18 Ankana Sen, Deepak John Mathew
Published in Photography and Culture (Vol. 16, No. 2, 2023)
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From the Editors Photography and Culture Pub Date : 2023-04-25
Published in Photography and Culture (Vol. 15, No. 4, 2022)
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Lola Álvarez Bravo: Subverting Surrealist Photography in Mexico Photography and Culture Pub Date : 2023-03-15 Lauren Walden
Abstract Rather than merely draw inspiration from Surrealism, I argue that Mexican photographer Lola Álvarez Bravo actually subverts some of its founding tenets and iconography. Though archived letters documenting the turbulent relationship with her former husband Manuel Álvarez Bravo, I contend that empirical experience incited her to deconstruct the male anatomy similarly to the surrealist treatment
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Imagining the Divine Photography and Culture Pub Date : 2023-03-06 Luqman Lee
Published in Photography and Culture (Vol. 16, No. 1, 2023)
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A Different Lens: Pegg Clarke, E. G. Shaw and the History of Australian Women’s Photography Photography and Culture Pub Date : 2022-12-05 Lorraine Sim
Abstract Many women were actively engaged in photography in Australia from the nineteenth century. However, women’s contributions to the field are under-represented in extant histories of Australian photography, particularly photography prior to the 1970s. This essay explores some of the reasons for that erasure and offers two acts of historical and textual recovery. Drawing on new archival research
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Between Topographical Groundwork and Neocolonial Aspirations: The ‘Best Practice’ of Survey Photography in the Chilean-Argentine Boundary Case of 1902 Photography and Culture Pub Date : 2022-10-13 Matthias Johannes Pfaller Schmid
Abstract This article investigates photography as a tool of neocolonial territorial politics in the Cordillera of the Andes Boundary Case of 1902, in which Chile and Argentina re-negotiated their border in Patagonia. To avoid an impending war, they brought their case to the English King for arbitration. Scientists from all three sides compiled reports, maps and notably, photographs, providing proof
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Transhistoricizing the Drone: A Comparative Visual Social Semiotic Analysis of Pigeon and Domestic Drone Photography Photography and Culture Pub Date : 2022-09-14 Lauren Alex O’Hagan, Elisa Serafinelli
Abstract This article seeks to situate drone imagery within a more extensive lineage of practice by focusing on one particular form with which it is comparable: pigeon photography. Using a combination of visual social semiotic analysis, literature from Drone Studies, and archival research, it highlights four overarching characteristics shared between photographs taken by pigeons between 1908 and 1912
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Inuit, the Crown, and Racialized Visuality: Photographs from the 1956 Canadian Governor General’s Arctic Tour Photography and Culture Pub Date : 2022-08-24 Carol Payne
Abstract This article examines the role of visuality in both the imposition of settler colonial authority and its contestation. As a specific case study, I discuss a group of images made by photographer Gar Lunney under the auspices of the National Film Board of Canada’s Still Photography Division (NFB) during the historic 1956 Arctic tour conducted by then Canadian Governor General Vincent Massey
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Searching for the Homeland with Stories and Sands: ‘My Tarim’ and ‘Sand, Sand, and Sand’ Photography and Culture Pub Date : 2022-08-03 Boyuan Zhang
Published in Photography and Culture (Vol. 15, No. 3, 2022)
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Photographic Education in Uganda Photography and Culture Pub Date : 2022-07-19 Juma Kasadha, Rajab Idd Muyingo
Abstract This article explores photographic education in Uganda. It presents exploratory observations in the study of photography at Ugandan Universities. Specifically, it examines the nature of students admitted to study Photography and students’ practice of photography. It also explores the use of student-centered learning techniques; and highlights the drawbacks, Government policy and photographic
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The Hybrid Dialectics Interview between Warren S. Neidich and Erik Morse Photography and Culture Pub Date : 2022-07-18 Warren S. Neidich, Erik Morse
Abstract This interview between the writer and critic Erik Morse and the artist and theorist Warren Neidich took place over the course of two months in the fall/winter 2021–2022. The interview focuses on a body of work entitled the Hybrid Dialectics produced between 1997–2002 that served as bridge between his earlier perfomative reenactments and fictitious documents entitled, American History Reinvented
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When Photographs Fail, When Monuments Fall: Photography and Reparations in Canada Photography and Culture Pub Date : 2022-05-27 Gabrielle Moser
Abstract Photography was an instrumental tool in Canada’s Indian Residential School system throughout the first half of the twentieth century, used by the government to promote, obscure, reveal, and conceal the violence directed at Indigenous children in state care. Though these static images—designed to contain their children subjects—failed to rouse civic intervention at the time, they are being
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Get in: Rhetoric and Realities of Diversity in the Global University Photography and Culture Pub Date : 2022-05-27 John L. Tran
Abstract Diversity – in the nominal sense of widening access to education beyond majority group interests – is a stated objective for many institutions of higher education worldwide. However, different narratives of national and institutional identity play a role in how programmes of diversity are conceived. In recent university reforms initiated in Japan by MEXT (Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture
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Us in Relation to the Universe—Collaborative North-South Photographic Practice Research Photography and Culture Pub Date : 2022-05-27 Kerstin Hacker
Abstract In 1986 Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o argued that ‘[t]he choice of language and the use to which language is put is central to a people’s definition of themselves’ (Ngũgĩ 1986:4). This article re-applies Ngũgĩ’s analysis to contemporary African photographic practice, since images are similarly central to people’s self-definition. Collaborating with the Zambian National Visual Arts Council
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Pandemic Photography: Images from COVID-19 in India Photography and Culture Pub Date : 2022-05-27 Pramod K Nayar
Abstract This essay examines several photographs taken during the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in India in 2021. It argues that the photographs capture an “atmo-terror” (terror from the air). The paper records the evolution of atmo-technics: alongside the dehumanization of the patient/sufferer, acts of resilience were reported and recorded. A “civil contract” of photography may be inferred
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Possible Traces of Whiteness Photography and Culture Pub Date : 2022-05-27 Yuxin Jiang, Daniel C. Blight
(2022). Possible Traces of Whiteness. Photography and Culture: Vol. 15, Radical Pedagogy and the Photographic Image, pp. 91-95.
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Countless Ways of Knowing: Looking at Images beyond the Frame as a Practice of Liberatory Pedagogy Photography and Culture Pub Date : 2022-05-27 Barby Asante
(2022). Countless Ways of Knowing: Looking at Images beyond the Frame as a Practice of Liberatory Pedagogy. Photography and Culture: Vol. 15, Radical Pedagogy and the Photographic Image, pp. 97-101.
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(De)Colonial Positioning Photography and Culture Pub Date : 2022-05-27 Nina Mangalanayagam
(2022). (De)Colonial Positioning. Photography and Culture: Vol. 15, Radical Pedagogy and the Photographic Image, pp. 103-108.
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“Multiethnic Pioneers”: Representation of Korean Agrarian Villages in Manshū gurafu and the Vision of a Multiethnic State Photography and Culture Pub Date : 2022-05-23 Inhye Kang
Abstract Manchuria (also known as Manchukuo) was a puppet state established by Japanese empire after the Mukden Incident on September 18, 1931. From its genesis, Manchuria sought to create a positive image of itself both for domestic Japanese and international audiences. This paper focuses on Manshū gurafu (Manchuria Graph), a magazine published by the South Manchuria Rail Company. The magazine is
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Days of Isolation: Queering a Pandemic - Playing Myself/Selves Photography and Culture Pub Date : 2022-05-19 Richard Sawdon Smith
Published in Photography and Culture (Vol. 15, No. 4, 2022)
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Documents from the Edges of Conflict Photography and Culture Pub Date : 2022-05-09 Ollie Gapper
Published in Photography and Culture (Vol. 15, No. 2, 2022)
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“We Live in a Wagon Never Going Anywhere:” The Representations of Housing Conditions and Tuberculosis in Zagreb between the Two World Wars Photography and Culture Pub Date : 2022-03-07 Stella Fatović-Ferenčić, Martin Kuhar
Abstract The collection of Vladimir Ćepulić’s photographs named The Housing Misery in Zagreb, with wagon apartments as one of its main themes, documents the perception of tuberculosis, particularly its epidemiological aspect, between the two world wars. The representation of tuberculosis as a threat is realized in these photographs through the demonstration of dire housing conditions in which parts
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John Møller’s ‘Photographic Memory’ – Professional Photography of Greenlandic Inuit and Danish Administrators at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Photography and Culture Pub Date : 2022-01-04 Anna M. Gielas
Published in Photography and Culture (Vol. 15, No. 2, 2022)
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From the Editors Photography and Culture Pub Date : 2021-12-14 Yunchang Yang
(2021). From the Editors. Photography and Culture: Vol. 14, No. 4, pp. 433-435.
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“The Queer Optics of the Vietnamese Diaspora: Reframing the Visual Archive in ‘The opposite of looking is not invisibility. The opposite of yellow is not gold.’” Photography and Culture Pub Date : 2021-10-08 Sally McWilliams
Abstract Vietnamese diasporic artists who came to the U.S. post 1975 actively engage with the silences, losses, and distortions that fracture and fragment their families’ histories, memories, and images. My analysis argues that the photographic installation “The opposite of looking is not invisibility. The opposite of yellow is not gold” by Hương Ngô and Hồng-Ân Trương participates in this project
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Suburban Herbarium Photography and Culture Pub Date : 2021-11-25 William Arnold
(2021). Suburban Herbarium. Photography and Culture: Vol. 14, No. 4, pp. 483-494.
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Kodachrome Plantation: Bruce Jackson’s Color Prison Photographs Photography and Culture Pub Date : 2021-09-17 Kimberly Schreiber
Abstract This article examines the color photographs that were taken by Bruce Jackson at prison farms throughout Texas and Arkansas between 1964 and 1979. It not only asks why Jackson’s photographs have been exclusively published and exhibited in black-and-white, but also explores what might be gained by seeing the prison farm in color. Extending from Sally Stein’s examination of the rhetorical meanings
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Photographic Digital Heritage in Cultural Conflicts: A Critical Introduction Photography and Culture Pub Date : 2021-08-16 Gil Pasternak
Abstract This introduction to the special issue “Photographic Digital Heritage in Cultural Conflicts” calls for the development of research into the various local and global political circumstances that have influenced the absorption of historical photographs into the realm of digital heritage, alongside the study of the digital photographic heritagization practices triggered by this very process.
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Indigenous Uses of Photographic Digital Heritage in Postcolonizing Australia Photography and Culture Pub Date : 2021-07-29 Jane Lydon
Abstract The process of “postcolonizing” continues in the former settler colony of Australia, entailing intense struggles over national identity and culture. Digital heritage plays a key role in these conflicts, in the form of historical and newer archives that have become increasingly important within Indigenous advocacy for recognition. Constructed from more traditional museum, library and private
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Digital Visual Activism: Photography and the Re-Opening of the Unresolved Truth and Reconciliation Commission Cases in Post-Apartheid South Africa Photography and Culture Pub Date : 2021-08-06 Kylie Thomas
Abstract This article explores the creation and curation of digital photographic heritage relating to the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa as a political project and examines the importance of the online circulation of historical photographs from private collections for public engagement with the re-opening of unresolved judicial cases concerning activists who were detained, tortured and murdered
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Sheltering the Ghosts? Digitized Photographs of Political Victims and World War II Veterans on Russian Online Databases Photography and Culture Pub Date : 2021-08-03 Denis Skopin
Abstract In this article I consider Russian online databases that collect, digitize and organize film-based photographs showing Russian victims and participants of the twentieth-century political cataclysms, primarily World War II (WWII) and Stalin’s political terror. Most of these photographs are pre-WWII portraits from private photographic collections and family albums. The article focuses on their