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 played a central role in cultural
encounters within and between migrant communities in the United States. 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 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 (Texas State University), 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).
Acknowledgments
INTRODUCTION
Contact Zones: Photography, Migration,
and the United States
Justin Carville and Sigrid Lien
PHOTOGR APHIES, REPRESENTATIONS, AND MIGRATIONS
The Figure of Migration
David Bate
VERNACULAR PHOTOGR APHIES AND MIGR ATION
From Cavan to Kansas: A
Photographic Album of Family Migration from Ireland
to North America
Orla Fitzpatrick
A Letter from Pat in America: Photo-remittances and the Irish American
Diaspora
Justin Carville
DIASPORIC IMAGINATIONS
“First Pictures”: New York
through the Lens of Emigrated European Photographers in the 1930s and 1940s
Helene Roth
Migrating Images of War and Dislocation: From War Zone to Contact Zone and from Photography to Photomontage
Aleksandra Idzior
Far from Home: Winston
Vargas in Washington Heights
Leslie Ureña
EXHIBITING MIGRATIONS
A Box, a Suitcase, a Museum Photographic Records of Croatian Immigrants to the United States
Sandra Križić Roban
What
Moves You? Georges Didi-Huberman’s Arts of Passage and Pittsburgh Stories of Migration
Alexandra Irimia
DOCUMENTING MIGRATIONS
Searching for Oleana: Contemporary Photographic Negotiations of Migration and Settler-Colonial Tropes
Sigrid Lien
The Photographer as Advocate: Representing Migrant Communities in San Francisco and Tijuana
Bridget Gilman
Witnessing the Trauma of Undocumented Migrants
in Mexico
Sarah Bassnett
There Was no Record of Her Smile: Muriel Hasbun’s X post facto
Erina Duganne
Contributors
Gallery with Color Plates
Format: Edited volume - free ebook - ePUB
360 pages
ISBN: 9789461663580
Publication: July 05, 2021
Languages: English
Download: https://muse.jhu.edu/book/84471
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.