Diverse Voices in Photographic Albums

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.

• Introduction1. The Album’s Diverse HistoriesMary Trent Complicating Family Narratives2. Women on Holiday: Intergenerational Narratives in Photographic Albums from India Suryanandini Narain 3. ‘Children of Shadowland’: A Family’s Scrapbook Story of Intellectual DisabilityJames Trent4. Henry Darger’s Album of Orphans and FugitivesMary TrentStepping Out of "the Closet," Privately5. ‘Dropping Hairpins’: Cisgender Performance and ‘Homosociality’ in William Whitney’s Fin-de-Siècle College AlbumsKris Belden-Adams 6. A Scissored Gay Life of the 1930s and 1940s: The Scrapbooks of Ogden SalmonJames Kaser7. In Plain Sight: Album-Making and Queer Identity in Mid-Twentieth-Century South AfricaDanielle KinseyRetelling National and International Histories 8. ‘We Carry the Weight of a 150-Year Legacy’: Sharing the Memories of a U.S. Civil War Photograph AlbumMichèle Gates Moresi9. The Politics of Floating: Space and Experience in G. Prat photograph album of China and Japan, 1874-1900Xinyue Yuan10. Collecting the Indian Congress: Reframing Indigenous Photography Albums from the Trans-Mississippi and International ExpositionKaren Barber11. Secrets from the Family Album: Official and Silenced Knowledge on MigrationYa’ara Gil-GlazerConclusions 12. Conclusions: Albums and Diverse CommunitiesKris Belden-AdamsAfterwordMargaret Vendryes