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Contact Zones

Photography, Migration, and Cultural Encounters in the U.S.

Justin Carville editor Sigrid Lien editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Leuven University Press

Published:17th Jun '21

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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. Free ebook available at OAPEN Library, JSTOR and Project Muse 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 (San Diego State University), Aleksandra Idzior (University of Fraser Valley), Alexandra Irimia (University of Western Ontario), Sandra Krizic Roban (Institute of Art History, Zagreb), Sigrid Lien (University of Bergen), Helene Roth (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munich), Leslie Urena (Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery)

This comprehensive, interdisciplinary volume will appeal to art historians, scholars of photography and those interested in contemporary European, Latin American and US migration. Individual chapters will be useful for historians of the Croatian, Dominican, German, Irish, Norwegian and Central American diasporas. Contact Zones would make a rich addition to syllabi for undergraduate and graduate courses on US cultural history, migration and transnationalism, and visual media in the Americas. - Erica Toffoli, History of Photography, https://doi.org/10.1080/03087298.2024.2312701

ISBN: 9789462702523

Dimensions: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm

Weight: 740g

360 pages