School Photos in Liquid Time - Reframing Difference

"Inspired by pictures of Jewish schoolchildren taken in ghettos and internment camps during World War II, Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer's School Photos in Liquid Time: Reframing Difference offers the first extended critical analysis of school photography. Comparing their own childhood snapshots from 1950s Romania and Bolivia with those produced in other historical spaces of persecution, from Native American boarding schools to missionary classrooms in Sierra Leone, they ask what the ubiquitous but understudied genre can tell us about power and domination. They interweave their "connective" history with examinations of contemporary photographic artwork to demonstrate how school photographs elucidate the contingency -- as much as the final product -- of assimilation and exclusion. Ambitious yet accessible, School Photographs in Liquid Time presents school photography as a new access point into institutions of power, one that reveals their capacity be disrupted by past and present actors"--

About the author

Marianne Hirsch is William Peterfield Trent Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and professor in the Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality. She is author of many books, including The Generation of Postmemory: Writing and Visual Culture after the Holocaust. Leo Spitzer is K. T. Vernon Professor of History Emeritus at Dartmouth College and author of several books, including Hotel Bolivia: The Culture of Memory in a Refuge from Nazism. Hirsch and Spitzer also coauthored Ghosts of Home: The Afterlife of Czernowitz in Jewish Memory.

Product details

• Authors: Marianne Hirsch, Marianne Spitzer Hirsch, Marianne/ Spitzer Hirsch, Leo Spitzer
• Publisher: University Of Washington Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780295746548
• ISBN: 978-0-295-74654-8
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies; Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectu; School Photos in Liquid Time; Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish StudiesSamuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish StudiesSamuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish StudiesSamuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Stu
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories