Intimate Conflicts: Foregrounding the Radical Politics of Family Photographs

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dc.contributor.authorPasternak, Gilen
dc.date.accessioned2014-11-25T14:01:57Z
dc.date.available2014-11-25T14:01:57Z
dc.date.issued2014-12
dc.description.abstractIn this essay I discuss the common scholarly argument that because the nuclear family is conditioned by the social order, family photographs manifest and propagate social values as well as behavioral standards that secure a sense of sociocultural cohesion. Indeed family photographs construct and impart knowledge about the family and its sociocultural surroundings. However, they are collected by families, kept for families, and shared within familial circles of relations and close friends. They are made for a specific group of individuals, often in moments of no particular significance other than for the intimate circle of the family unit. I therefore show that family photographs are the products of sitters’ desires to draw attention to their own selves and the alternative realities created by and for themselves, rather than to the social domain at large. In this respect, I argue that family photographs have more in common with photographic histories of sociopolitical conflict and destabilization than with those of political integration and social cohesion.en
dc.funderN/Aen
dc.identifier.citationPasternak, G. (2014) Intimate Conflicts: Foregrounding the Radical Politics of Family Photographs. In: Sheehan, Tanya, ed. Photography, History, Difference. University Press of New England.en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.5920/radar.2011.2113
dc.identifier.isbn9781611686470
dc.identifier.isbn9781611686463
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2086/10504
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.peerreviewedYesen
dc.projectidN/Aen
dc.publisherUniversity Press of New Englanden
dc.researchgroupPhotographic History Research Centre (PHRC)en
dc.researchinstituteMedia Discourse Centre (MDC)en
dc.researchinstituteInstitute of Art and Designen
dc.subjectPhotographyen
dc.subjectHistoriographyen
dc.subjectFamily Photographyen
dc.subjectFamily Photographsen
dc.titleIntimate Conflicts: Foregrounding the Radical Politics of Family Photographsen
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