Doing Family Photography

Gillian Rose is Professor of Cultural Geography at the Open University, UK

• Preface, Gillian Rose; Chapter 1 Introduction, Gillian Rose; Chapter 2 How to Look at Family Photographs: Practices, Objects, Subjects and Places, Gillian Rose; Chapter 3 What is Done with Family Snaps?, Gillian Rose; Chapter 4 What Happens with this Doing? Family, Domestic Space and Mothering, Gillian Rose; Chapter 5 The Circulation of Family Photographs in the Visual Economy, Gillian Rose; Chapter 6 Family Photos Going Public, Gillian Rose; Chapter 7 The Politics of Sentiment: Picturing the Missing and the Dead in London, July 2005, Gillian Rose; Chapter 8 Looking Again, Ethically, at Family Snaps in the Mass Media, Gillian Rose; Chapter 9 Conclusions: Family Photographs, Domestic and Public, and the Contemporary Visual Economy, Gillian Rose;

'In shifting attention from what they show and what they mean, to what they do and how they are felt, this book completely changes the ways in which we might understand the humble family photograph in both private and public spaces. Theoretically, methodologically and empirically rich, it is set to become a standard work in the field of visual culture studies.' Elizabeth Edwards, University of the Arts London, UK 'In this book Gillian Rose shows that a photographic tradition that has been dismissed by critics is worthy of sustained and serious attention, for what it has to say about doing family and for the manner of its translation into public registers. Read this and you will realise that family snaps are serious photographs.' Nicky Gregson, University of Sheffield, UK 'This is an up-to-date and scholarly work that should easily find a place in a wide range of bookshelves' M/C Reviews 'I recommend this book as a fascinating critical analysis of the things we do and see everyday...' New Zealand Geographer