Doing Family Photography: The Domestic, the Public and the Politics of Sentiment

Front Cover
Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2010 - Social Science - 158 pages
This 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
Copyright

Other editions - View all

Common terms and phrases

About the author (2010)

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

Bibliographic information