Locating Memory

Annette Kuhn is Professor of Film Studies at Lancaster University, UK, and an editor of the journal Screen. She has written about photographs in The Power of the Image: Essays on Representation and Sexuality (1985) and Family Secrets: Acts of Memory and Imagination (1995). Her most recent book is An Everyday Magic: Cinema and Cultural Memory (2002).

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsChapter 1. Locating Memory: Photographic Acts - An IntroductionAnnette Kuhn and Kirsten Emiko McAllisterPART I: IDENTITIESChapter 2. Re-placing History: Critiquing the Colonial Gaze through Photographic Works by Jeffrey Thomas and Greg StaatsAndrea WalshChapter 3. Photography, ‘Englishness’ and Collective Memory: The National Photographic Record Association, 1897-1910Elizabeth EdwardsChapter 4. A Story of Escape: Family Photographs from Japanese Canadian Internment CampsKirsten Emiko McAllisterPART II: DIS/LOCATIONSChapter 5. The Return of the Aura: Contemporary Writers Look Back at the First World War PhotographMarlene A. BriggsChapter 6. ‘There Was Never a Camp Here’: Searching for VapniarkaMarianne Hirsch and Leo SpitzerChapter 7. The Space Between: Photography and the Time of Forgetting in the Work of Willie DohertyAndrew QuickChapter 8. Displaced Events: Photographic Memory and Performance ArtNick KayePART III: REFRAMINGSChapter 9. Vietnam War Photography as a Locus of MemoryPatrick HagopianChapter 10. Speaking the Album: An Application of the Oral-photographic FrameworkMartha LangfordChapter 11. Talking Through: This Space Around Four Pictures by Jeff WallJerry Zaslove and Glen LowryBibliographyNotes on ContributorsIndex

“…[this volume makes a] strong contribution… to rethinking the limitations and failures of photographic representation and to challenging our own interpretive assumptions driven by desires to see and read photographs in certain ways. Rather, as the volume makes clear in unique and varied sites of research, photographic meaning and memory, unstable and in constant flux, are marked as much by forgetfulness and absence as remembrance and presence.”  ·  H-Net“…the discursive style of each of the chapters highlights the value of attention to oral histories…There are many chapters worth investigating in this volume, delivering as it does a specific methodological clout for the study of memory and its mutations over time which result in national deliriums, amnesia and all types of cultural disorders.”  ·  Cultural Studies Review“The successful combination of varied insights, from work on cultural memory and visual culture to analysis of photographic acts, makes this a unique collection of essays, an exemplary model of interdisciplinary scholarship, and a valuable asset to Berghahn Books’ ‘Remapping Cultural History’ series.”  ·  Canadian Journal of Communication