000 01387nam a22001335i 4500
020 _a9780719099991 (paperback)
082 _a303.484
_bMEM/P
100 1 _aMemou, Antigoni
245 1 0 _aPhotography and social movements
260 _aUK
_bManchester University press
_c2013
300 _axiv, 166 p.
520 _aNow available for the first time in paperback, Photography and social movements is the first thorough study of photography’s interrelationship with social movements. Focusing on photographic production and dissemination during the student and worker uprising in Paris in May 1968, the Zapatista rebellion, and the anti-capitalist protests in Genoa in 2001, the book argues that at times of political uprisings, photographic documentations, often contradictory, strive to prevail in the public domain, extending the political or economic struggle to a representational level. Photography plays a central role in this representational conflict, by either reproducing or challenging stereotypical narratives of protest. This groundbreaking interdisciplinary analysis of a wide range of practices - amateur and professional - and of previously unpublished archival material will add considerably to students’, researchers’ and scholars’ knowledge of both the visual imagery of political movements and the developing history of photographic representation.
942 _cBK
999 _c59792
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