Citizens of photography : the camera and the political imagination /

"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, t...

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Other Authors:	Pinney, Christopher (Editor, Contributor), Binaisa, Naluwembe (Editor, Contributor), Buthpitiya, Vindhya (Editor, Contributor), Kalantzis, Konstantinos (Editor, Contributor), Selejan, Ileana (Editor, Contributor), Young, Sokphea (Editor, Contributor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Durham : Duke University Press, 2023.
Subjects:	Photography > Political aspects. Photography > Social aspects. Documentary photography. Photography in ethnology. Photographie > Aspect politique. Photographie > Aspect social. Photographie documentaire. Photographie en ethnologie. documentary photography. PHOTOGRAPHY / History. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social. Documentary photography Photography in ethnology Photography > Political aspects Photography > Social aspects Electronic books.
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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"--
Physical Description:	1 online resource (354 pages) : illustrations
Format:	Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9781478024590 1478024593 9781478093619 1478093617