Diverse Voices in Photographic Albums

These Are Our Stories
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-0-367-74357-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 250 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 480 g

Reihe: Routledge History of Photography

Through a variety of case studies by global scholars from diverse academic fields, this book explores photographic-album practices of historically marginalized figures from a range of time periods, geographic locations, and socio-cultural contexts. Their albums' stories span various racial, ethnic, gender and sexual identities; nationalities; religions; and dis/abilities.

The vernacular albums featured in this volume present narratives that move beyond those reflected in our existing histories. Essays examine the visual, material, and aural strategies that album-makers have used to assert control over the presentation of their histories and identities, and to direct what those narratives have to say, a point of special relevance as these albums move out of private domestic space and into public archives, institutions, and digital formats. This book does not consider photographic albums and scrapbooks as separate genres, but as a continuum of modern creative practices of photographic and mass-print collage aimed at self-expression and narrative-building that co-evolved and were readily accessible.

The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, history of photography, visual culture, material culture, media studies, and cultural studies.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Trent, Mary

Belden-Adams, Kris

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Fotografie Fotografie: Geschichte und Sammlungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

1. The Album’s Diverse Histories

Mary Trent

Complicating Family Narratives

2. Women on Holiday: Intergenerational Narratives in Photographic Albums from India

Suryanandini Narain

3. ‘Children of Shadowland’: A Family’s Scrapbook Story of Intellectual Disability

James Trent

4. Henry Darger’s Album of Orphans and Fugitives

Mary Trent

Stepping Out of "the Closet," Privately

5. ‘Dropping Hairpins’: Cisgender Performance and ‘Homosociality’ in William Whitney’s Fin-de-Siècle College Albums

Kris Belden-Adams

6. A Scissored Gay Life of the 1930s and 1940s: The Scrapbooks of Ogden Salmon

James Kaser

7. In Plain Sight: Album-Making and Queer Identity in Mid-Twentieth-Century South Africa

Danielle Kinsey

Retelling National and International Histories

8. ‘We Carry the Weight of a 150-Year Legacy’: Sharing the Memories of a U.S. Civil War Photograph Album

Michèle Gates Moresi

9. The Politics of Floating: Space and Experience in G. Prat photograph album of China and Japan, 1874-1900

Xinyue Yuan

10. Collecting the Indian Congress: Reframing Indigenous Photography Albums from the Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition

Karen Barber

11. Secrets from the Family Album: Official and Silenced Knowledge on Migration

Ya’ara Gil-Glazer

Conclusions

12. Conclusions: Albums and Diverse Communities

Kris Belden-Adams

Afterword

Margaret Vendryes

Über Autor(innen)

Mary Trent is an Assistant Professor of Art and Architectural History at College of Charleston, South Carolina, USA.

Kris Belden-Adams is an Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Mississippi, USA.