Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Hirsch, Marianne

Publication

Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2020]

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Details

Additional Authors

Spitzer, Leo, 1939-

Description

xi, 231 pages : illustrations (some color); 24 cm.

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"--

Series Statement

The Samuel & Althea Stroum lectures in Jewish studies

Uniform Title

Samuel and Althea Stroum lectures in Jewish studies.

Subject

• School photography > Social aspects
• Children of minorities > Portraits
• Assimilation (Sociology)
• Marginality, Social
• Race relations
• Ethnic relations
• Children of minorities

Genre/Form

Portraits.

Note

• "A Samuel and Althea Stroum book."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Incongruous images -- Why school photos? -- Imperial frames -- Framing difference -- Exclusionary frames -- The "disobedient gaze."

Call Number

JQE 21-93

ISBN

• 9780295746531
• 029574653X
• 9780295746548
• 0295746548

LCCN

2019015555

OCLC

1098229699

Author

Hirsch, Marianne, author.

Title

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

Publisher

Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2020]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

The Samuel & Althea Stroum lectures in Jewish studies

Samuel and Althea Stroum lectures in Jewish studies.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Note

AUTH: COLUMBIA UNIV. EXAMINES GENRE OF VERNACULAR PHOTOGRAPHY. EXHIBITION CATALOG. SUBSTANTIAL TEXT.

Added Author

Spitzer, Leo, 1939- author.

Other Form:

Online version: Hirsch, Marianne. School photos in liquid time. Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2019] 9780295746555 (DLC) 2019019193

Research Call Number

JQE 21-93