School photos in liquid time : reframing difference / Marianne Hirsch, Leo Spitzer.

By:

Hirsch, Marianne [author.]

Contributor(s):

Spitzer, Leo, 1939- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Samuel and Althea Stroum lectures in Jewish studiesPublisher: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2020]Description: 1 online resource (xi, 231 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780295746555
0295746556

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: School photos in liquid time.DDC classification:

779/.25 23

LOC classification:

TR818 .H57 2020

Online resources:

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Contents:

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Imperial Frames -- 2. Framing Difference -- 3. Exclusionary Frames -- 4. The "Disobedient Gaze" -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- Plates

Summary: "Inspired by pictures of Jewish schoolchildren taken in ghettos and internment camps during World War II, Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer's School Photos in Liquid Time: Reframing Difference offers the first extended critical analysis of school photography. Comparing their own childhood snapshots from 1950s Romania and Bolivia with those produced in other historical spaces of persecution, from Native American boarding schools to missionary classrooms in Sierra Leone, they ask what the ubiquitous but understudied genre can tell us about power and domination. They interweave their "connective" history with examinations of contemporary photographic artwork to demonstrate how school photographs elucidate the contingency -- as much as the final product -- of assimilation and exclusion. Ambitious yet accessible, School Photographs in Liquid Time presents school photography as a new access point into institutions of power, one that reveals their capacity be disrupted by past and present actors"-- Provided by publisher

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"A Samuel and Althea Stroum book."

"Inspired by pictures of Jewish schoolchildren taken in ghettos and internment camps during World War II, Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer's School Photos in Liquid Time: Reframing Difference offers the first extended critical analysis of school photography. Comparing their own childhood snapshots from 1950s Romania and Bolivia with those produced in other historical spaces of persecution, from Native American boarding schools to missionary classrooms in Sierra Leone, they ask what the ubiquitous but understudied genre can tell us about power and domination. They interweave their "connective" history with examinations of contemporary photographic artwork to demonstrate how school photographs elucidate the contingency -- as much as the final product -- of assimilation and exclusion. Ambitious yet accessible, School Photographs in Liquid Time presents school photography as a new access point into institutions of power, one that reveals their capacity be disrupted by past and present actors"-- Provided by publisher