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oapen-20.500.12657-571242022-06-28T08:20:04Z Photography, Truth and Reconciliation Miles, Melissa history of photography, art history, visual studies bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AJ Photography & photographs::AJC Photographs: collections::AJCR Photographic reportage bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AJ Photography & photographs bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBG General & world history bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBA History: theory & methods::HBAH Historiography Photography, Truth and Reconciliation charts the connections between photography and a crucial issue in contemporary social history. The book examines the prevalence of photography in cultural responses to processes of truth and reconciliation, and argues that photographs are a valuable means through which stories can be retold and historiography can be rethought. Five compelling case studies from Argentina, Canada, Australia, South Africa and Cambodia underscore the special role that this medium has played in facilitating processes of recovery, and in reconstructing suppressed histories, even when a documentary record of the events does not exist. The diverse practices addressed in this book – including artistic, protest, institutional, archival, legal and personal photography – prompt a new consideration of photography’s links to presence, place, time, spectatorship and justice. Collectively, these practices attest to photography’s key role in transitional justice, and in shaping historical understanding internationally. Important reading for students taking photography, visual culture, history and media studies courses, Photography, Truth and Reconciliation explores key historical and theoretical themes, including photography and testimony, international discourses on human rights and justice, and problematic notions of public and collective memory. 2022-06-28T08:09:18Z 2022-06-28T08:09:18Z 2020 book 9781032220239 9781474296069 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/57124 eng Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003103820 10.4324/9781003103820 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb d2e57ecd-ce66-4b1d-9178-2bc940e52819 b813032b-ad1c-4af7-af21-c4e381480c5b 9781032220239 9781474296069 Routledge open access
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Photography, Truth and Reconciliation charts the connections between photography and a crucial issue in contemporary social history. The book examines the prevalence of photography in cultural responses to processes of truth and reconciliation, and argues that photographs are a valuable means through which stories can be retold and historiography can be rethought. Five compelling case studies from Argentina, Canada, Australia, South Africa and Cambodia underscore the special role that this medium has played in facilitating processes of recovery, and in reconstructing suppressed histories, even when a documentary record of the events does not exist. The diverse practices addressed in this book – including artistic, protest, institutional, archival, legal and personal photography – prompt a new consideration of photography’s links to presence, place, time, spectatorship and justice. Collectively, these practices attest to photography’s key role in transitional justice, and in shaping historical understanding internationally. Important reading for students taking photography, visual culture, history and media studies courses, Photography, Truth and Reconciliation explores key historical and theoretical themes, including photography and testimony, international discourses on human rights and justice, and problematic notions of public and collective memory.
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