School Photos in Liquid Time: Reframing Difference

Author:   Marianne Hirsch ,  Leo Spitzer
Publisher:   University of Washington Press
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9780295746548


Pages:   264
Publication Date:   30 December 2019
Format:   Paperback
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From clandestine images of Jewish children isolated in Nazi ghettos and Japanese American children incarcerated in camps to images of Native children removed to North American boarding schools, classroom photographs of schoolchildren are pervasive even in repressive historical and political contexts. School Photos in Liquid Time offers a closer look at this genre of vernacular photography, tracing how photography advances ideologies of social assimilation as well as those of hierarchy and exclusion. In Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer's deft analysis, school photographs reveal connections between the histories of persecuted subjects in different national and imperial centers. Exploring what this ubiquitous and mundane but understudied genre tells us about domination as well as resistance, the authors examine school photos as documents of social life and agents of transformation. They place them in dialogue with works by contemporary artists who reframe, remediate, and elucidate them. Ambitious yet accessible, School Photos in Liquid Time presents school photography as a new access point into institutions of power, revealing the capacity of past and present actors to disrupt and reinvent them.

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Author:   Marianne Hirsch ,  Leo Spitzer
Publisher:   University of Washington Press
Imprint:   University of Washington Press
Weight:   0.590kg
ISBN:  

9780295746548


ISBN 10:   0295746548
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   30 December 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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[A] new book by Marianne Hirsch, the William Peterfield Trent Professor of English and Comparative Literature and a professor at the Institute for Research on Women, Gender and Sexuality, examines this common but overlooked genre of vernacular photography for the first time. --Columbia News


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Marianne Hirsch is William Peterfield Trent Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and professor in the Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality. She is author of many books, including The Generation of Postmemory: Writing and Visual Culture after the Holocaust. Leo Spitzer is K. T. Vernon Professor of History Emeritus at Dartmouth College and author of several books, including Hotel Bolivia: The Culture of Memory in a Refuge from Nazism. Hirsch and Spitzer also coauthored Ghosts of Home: The Afterlife of Czernowitz in Jewish Memory.

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