Research Catalog

Title

Citizens of photography : the camera and the political imagination / edited by Christopher Pinney ; with the PhotoDemos Collective (Naluwembe Binaisa, Vindhya Buthpitiya, Konstantinos Kalantzis, Christopher Pinney, Ileana L. Selejan, and Sokphea Young).

Publication

Durham : Duke University Press, 2023.

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Additional Authors

• Pinney, Christopher
• Binaisa, Naluwembe
• Buthpitiya, Vindhya
• Kalantzis, Konstantinos
• Selejan, Ileana
• Young, Sokphea

Description

354 pages : color illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

"Citizens of Photography explores how photography offers access to forms of citizenship beyond those available through ordinary politics. Through contemporary ethnographic investigations of photographic practice in Nicaragua, Nigeria, Greece, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Cambodia, the PhotoDemos Collective traces the resonances between political representation and photographic representation. The authors emphasize photography as lived practice and how photography's performative, transformative, and transgressive possibilities facilitate the articulation of new identities. They analyze photography ranging from family albums to social media to state and public archives, showing how it points to unknown futures and destinations in the context of social movements, the aftermath of atrocity and civil war, and the legacies of past injustices. By foregrounding photography's future-oriented, open-ended, and contingent nature and its ability to subvert and reconfigure conventional political identifications, this volume demonstrates that as much as photography looks to the past, it points to the future, acting in advance of social reality"--

Subject

• Photography > Political aspects
• Photography > Social aspects
• Documentary photography
• Photography in ethnology
• Photography

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction. Photographing : or, the future of the image / Christopher Pinney -- "The truth is in the soil" : the political work of photography in northern Sri Lanka / Vindhya Buthpitiya -- Visual citizenship in Cambodia : from apocalypse to visual "political emancipation" / Sokphea Young -- Photography, citizenship, and accusatory memory in the Greek crisis / Konstantinos Kalantzis -- Insurgent archive : the photographic making and un-making of the Nicaraguan revolutionary state / Ileana Selejan -- "We are moving with technology" : photographing voice and belonging in Nigeria / Nuluwembe Binaisa -- Citizenship, contingency, and futurity : photographic ethnographies from Nepal, India, and Bangladesh / Christopher Pinney.

Call Number

JQE 23-478

ISBN

• 9781478020769
• 1478020768
• 9781478020004
• 1478020008
• 9781478024590 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781478093619 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2022045929

OCLC

1360299981

Title

Citizens of photography : the camera and the political imagination / edited by Christopher Pinney ; with the PhotoDemos Collective (Naluwembe Binaisa, Vindhya Buthpitiya, Konstantinos Kalantzis, Christopher Pinney, Ileana L. Selejan, and Sokphea Young).

Publisher

Durham : Duke University Press, 2023.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Pinney, Christopher, editor, contributor.

Binaisa, Naluwembe, editor, contributor.

Buthpitiya, Vindhya, editor, contributor.

Kalantzis, Konstantinos, editor, contributor.

Selejan, Ileana, editor, contributor.

Young, Sokphea, editor, contributor.

Other Form:

Online version: Citizens of photography. Durham : Duke University Press, 2023 9781478024590 (DLC) 2022045930

Research Call Number

JQE 23-478