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Hirsch provocatively explores the photographic conventions for constructing family relationships and discusses artistic strategies for challenging those constructions. When we capture our family photographically, we are often responding to an idealized image. Contemporary artists and writers, Hirsch shows, have exposed the gap between lived reality and a perceived ideal to witness contradictions that shape visual representations of parents and children, siblings, lovers, or extended families.
Exploring fiction, "imagetexts," and photographic essays, she elucidates their subversive devices, giving particular attention to literal and metaphorical masks. While permitting false impressions and misreadings, family photos have also proved a powerful means for shaping personal and cultural memory. Hirsch highlights a striking example: a wide variety of family pictures surviving the Holocaust and the wrenching displacements of late twentieth-century history.
Whether personal treasures, artistic constructions, or museum installations, these images link private memory to collective history.
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Photographic criticism, Folklore, Family, Photography of families, FamiliesShowing 2 featured editions. View all 2 editions?
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Family Frames: Photography, Narrative and Postmemory
2013, Harvard University Press
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Family frames: photography, narrative, and postmemory
1997, Harvard University Press
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0674292650 9780674292659
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