Bibliograph

Oral History and Photography, edited by Alexander Freund and Alistair Thomson

Type

Label

Oral History and Photography, edited by Alexander Freund and Alistair Thomson

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Oral History and Photography

Oclc number

669751249

Responsibility statement

edited by Alexander Freund and Alistair Thomson

Series statement

Palgrave studies in oral history

Summary

"This essay collection explores the "photographic turn" in oral history. Contributors ask how oral historians can best use photographs in their interviewing practice and how they can best understand photographs in their interpretation of oral histories. The authors present a dozen case studies from Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States. In exploring the intersection of oral history and photography, they complicate and move beyond the use of photographs as social documents and memory triggers and demonstrate how photographs frame oral narratives and how stories unsettle the seeming fixity of photographs' meanings"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

PART I: REMEMBERING WITH IMAGES. Mary Brockmeyer's wedding picture : exploring the intersection of photographs and oral history interviews / Alexander Freund with Angela Thiessen ; "When I was a girl--" : women talking about their girlhood photo collections / Penny Tinkler ; Imaging family memories : my Mum, her photographs, our memories / Janis Wilton ; Remembering, forgetting and feeling with photographs / Lynda Mannik ; ''You hear it in their voice'' photographs and cultural consolidation among Inuit youths and elders / Carol Payne ; Using press photographs in the construction of political life stories / Martina Schiebel and Yvonne Robel -- PART II: MAKING HISTORIES. From propaganda to the personal : WAVES, memory, and the "prick" of photography / Kathleen M. Ryan ; Family photographs as traces of Americanization / Maris Thompson ; Family photographs and migrant memories : representing women's lives / Alistair Thomson ; From witness to participant: making subversive documentary / Al Bersch and Leslie Grant ; Photographs from the Shoebox / Janet Elizabeth Marles ; Committed eye : photographs, oral sources, and historical narrative / Ana Maria Mauad

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