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List of contents
Introduction
1. The Album’s Diverse Histories
Mary Trent
Complicating Family Narratives
2. Women on Holiday: Intergenerational Narratives in Photographic Albums from India
Suryanandini Narain
3. ‘Children of Shadowland’: A Family’s Scrapbook Story of Intellectual Disability
James Trent
4. Henry Darger’s Album of Orphans and Fugitives
Mary Trent
Stepping Out of "the Closet," Privately
5. ‘Dropping Hairpins’: Cisgender Performance and ‘Homosociality’ in William Whitney’s Fin-de-Siècle College Albums
Kris Belden-Adams
6. A Scissored Gay Life of the 1930s and 1940s: The Scrapbooks of Ogden Salmon
James Kaser
7. In Plain Sight: Album-Making and Queer Identity in Mid-Twentieth-Century South Africa
Danielle Kinsey
Retelling National and International Histories
8. ‘We Carry the Weight of a 150-Year Legacy’: Sharing the Memories of a U.S. Civil War Photograph Album
Michèle Gates Moresi
9. The Politics of Floating: Space and Experience in G. Prat photograph album of China and Japan, 1874-1900
Xinyue Yuan
10. Collecting the Indian Congress: Reframing Indigenous Photography Albums from the Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition
Karen Barber
11. Secrets from the Family Album: Official and Silenced Knowledge on Migration
Ya’ara Gil-Glazer
Conclusions
12. Conclusions: Albums and Diverse Communities
Kris Belden-Adams
Afterword
Margaret Vendryes
About the author
Mary Trent is an Assistant Professor of Art and Architectural History at College of Charleston, South Carolina, USA.
Kris Belden-Adams is an Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Mississippi, USA.
Summary
Through a variety of case studies by global scholars from diverse fields of study, this book explores photographic album practices of historically marginalized figures from a range of time periods, geographic locations, and socio-cultural contexts.
