Oral History and Photography /
"This essay collection explores the "photographic turn" in oral history. Contributors ask how oral historians can best use photographs in their interviewing practice and how they can best understand photographs in their interpretation of oral histories. The authors present a dozen cas...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2011.
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| Series: | Palgrave studies in oral history.
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Table of Contents:
- PART I: REMEMBERING WITH IMAGES. Mary Brockmeyer's wedding picture : exploring the intersection of photographs and oral history interviews / Alexander Freund with Angela Thiessen ; "When I was a girl--" : women talking about their girlhood photo collections / Penny Tinkler ; Imaging family memories : my Mum, her photographs, our memories / Janis Wilton ; Remembering, forgetting and feeling with photographs / Lynda Mannik ; Listening to pictures: photographs and oral history among Inuit youths and elders / Carol Payne ; Using press photographs in the construction of political life stories / Martina Schiebel and Yvonne Robel
- PART II: MAKING HISTORIES. Piercing the punctum : Oral history and the "prick" of photography / Kathleen M. Ryan ; Family photographs as traces of Americanization / Maris Thompson ; Family photographs and migrant memories : representing women's lives / Alistair Thomson ; From witness to participant: making subversive documentary / Alistair Bersch and Leslie Grant ; Photographs from the Shoebox / Janet Elizabeth Marles ; Committed eye : photographs, oral sources, and historical narrative / Ana Maria Mauad.
