
Contact Zones
Photography, Migration, and Cultural Encounters in the United States
Edited by Justin Carville and Sigrid Lien
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role of photography in U.S. migrant histories
Since the
mid-nineteenth century photography has had a central place in cultural
encounters within and between migrant communities. Migrant histories have been
mediated through the photographic image, and the cultural practices of
photography have themselves been transformed as migrant communities mobilise
the photographic image to navigate experiences of cultural dislocation and the
forging of new identities. Exploring photographic images and the cultural
practices of photography as ‘contact zones’ through which cultural exchange and
transformation takes place, this volume addresses the role of photography in
migrant histories in the United States from the mid-nineteenth century to
today. Taking as its focal point photography’s role in shaping migrant
experiences of cultural transformation, and in turn how migrant experiences
have re-configured culturally differentiated practices of photography, case
studies on migration from Europe, Central America, and North America position
photography as entwined with cultural histories of migration and cultural
transformation in the United States.
Contributors: Sarah Bassnett (Western University), David Bate (University of Westminster), Justin Carville (Institute of Art, Design & Technology, Dun Laoghaire), Erina Duganne (University of Texas, Austin), Orla Fitzpatrick (National Museum of Ireland), Bridget Gilman (Independent Scholar), Aleksandra Idzior (University of Fraser Valley), Alexandra Irimia (University of Western Ontario), Sandra Križić Roban (Institute of Art History, Zagreb), Sigrid Lien (University of Bergen), Helene Roth (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich), Leslie Ureña (Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery)
Ebook available in Open Access.This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).
Format: Edited volume - free ebook - PDF
340 pages
ISBN: 9789461663573
Publication: May 03, 2021
Languages: English
Sigrid Lien teaches modern and contemporary art history, including theory and history of Photography at the Department of Literary, Linguistic and Aesthetic Studies at the University of Bergen.