Written in the context of unprecedented dislocation and a global
refugee crisis, this edited volume thinks through photography’s long
and complex relationship to human migration. While contemporary media
images largely frame migration in terms of trauma, victimhood, and
pity, so much more can be said of photography’s role in the movement
of people around the world. Cameras can document, enable, or control
human movement across geographical, cultural, and political divides.
Their operators put faces on forced and voluntary migrations, making
visible hardships and suffering as well as opportunity and optimism.
Photographers include migrating subjects who take pictures for their
own consumption, not for international recognition. And photographs
themselves migrate with their makers, subjects, and viewers, as the
very concept of photography takes on new functions and meanings.
Photography and Migration places into conversation media images and
other photographs that the contributors have witnessed, collected, or
created through their diverse national, regional, and local contexts.
Developed across thirteen chapters, this conversation encompasses
images, histories, and testimonies offering analysis of new
perspectives on photography and migration today.
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ISBN
9781351997904
Publisert
2018
Utgave
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Utgiver
Taylor & Francis
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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