Oral History and Photography

2011
ISBN: 978-0-230-10460-0
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

Buch, Englisch, 252 Seiten, Book, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 540 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Oral History

This book collects original research essays to explore the diverse uses of photographs and photography in oral history, from the use of photos as memory triggers to their deployment in the telling of life stories. The book's contributors include both oral historians and photography scholars and critics.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Freund, A.

Thomson, A.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Mary Brockmeyer's Wedding Picture: Exploring the Intersection of Photographs and Oral History Interviews;  A.Freund  & A.Thiessen 'When I was a Girl . . .': Women Talking About their Girlhood Photo Collections; P.Tinkler Imaging Family Memories: My Mum, Her Photographs, Our Memories;  J.Wilton Remembering, Forgetting and Feeling with Photographs; L.Mannik Listening to Pictures: Photographs and Oral History among Inuit Youths and Elders;  C.Payne Using Press Photographs in the Construction of Political Life Stories; M.Schiebel  & Y.Robel Piercing the Punctum: Oral History and the 'Prick' of Photography; K.M.Ryan Family Photographs as Traces of Americanization;  M.Thompson Family Photographs and Migrant Memories: Representing Women's Lives;  A.Thomson From Witness to Participant: Making Subversive Documentary;  A.Bersch  & L.Grant Photographs from the Shoebox; J.E.Marles Committed Eye: Photographs, Oral Sources, and Historical Narrative;  A.M.Mauad

Über Autor(innen)

ALEXANDER FREUND Chair in German-Canadian Studies at the University of Winnipeg, Canada. ALISTAIR THOMSON Professor of History at Monash University, Australia.