Doing Family Photography

Auteur
Gillian Rose is Professor of Cultural Geography at the Open University, UK

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Family photography is now more popular than ever thanks to technological advances which allow the storing and sharing of vast numbers of pictures. Here, case study material drawn from the UK offers a deeper understanding of both domestic family photographs and their public display. Recent work in material culture studies, geography, and anthropology is used to approach photographs as objects embedded in social practices, which produce specific social positions, relations and effects.

Résumé
Family photography, a ubiquitous domestic tradition in the developed world, is now more popular than ever thanks to the development of digital photography. Once uploaded to PCs and other gadgets, photographs may be stored, deleted, put in albums, sent to relatives and friends, retouched, or put on display. Moreover, in recent years family photographs are more frequently appearing in public media: on posters, in newspapers and on the Internet, particularly in the wake of disasters like 9/11, and in cases of missing children. Here, case study material drawn from the UK offers a deeper understanding of both domestic family photographs and their public display. Recent work in material culture studies, geography, and anthropology is used to approach photographs as objects embedded in social practices, which produce specific social positions, relations and effects. Also explored are the complex economies of gifting and exchange amongst families, and the rich geographies of domestic and public spaces into which family photography offers an insight.

Contenu
Preface, Gillian Rose; Chapter 1 Introduction, Gillian Rose; Chapter 2 How to Look at Family Photographs: Practices, Objects, Subjects and Places, Gillian Rose; Chapter 3 What is Done with Family Snaps?, Gillian Rose; Chapter 4 What Happens with this Doing? Family, Domestic Space and Mothering, Gillian Rose; Chapter 5 The Circulation of Family Photographs in the Visual Economy, Gillian Rose; Chapter 6 Family Photos Going Public, Gillian Rose; Chapter 7 The Politics of Sentiment: Picturing the Missing and the Dead in London, July 2005, Gillian Rose; Chapter 8 Looking Again, Ethically, at Family Snaps in the Mass Media, Gillian Rose; Chapter 9 Conclusions: Family Photographs, Domestic and Public, and the Contemporary Visual Economy, Gillian Rose;