Doing Family Photography: The Domestic, the Public and the Politics of SentimentThis title looks closely at both domestic family photographs and their public display, using case study material from the UK. The book advocates approaching photographs as objects embedded in social practices, the doing of which produces specific social positions, relations and affects. |
Contents
What is Done with Family Snaps? | 25 |
What Happens with this Doing? | 41 |
The Circulation of Family Photographs in the Visual Economy | 59 |
Family Photos Going Public | 75 |
Picturing the Missing and the Dead in London July 2005 | 91 |
Looking Again Ethically at Family Snaps in the Mass Media | 107 |
Family Photographs Domestic and Public and | 125 |
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