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- catalog abstract ""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."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b10398899.
- catalog created "c1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "c1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1997.".
- catalog description ""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."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-288) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: Family Frames -- 1. Mourning and Postmemory -- 2. Reframing the Human Family Romance -- 3. Masking the Subject -- 4. Unconscious Optics -- 5. Maternal Exposures -- 6. Resisting Images -- 7. Pictures of a Displaced Girlhood -- 8. Past Lives.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 304 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0674292650 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0674292669 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "c1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press,".
- catalog subject "770/.1 21".
- catalog subject "Families Folklore.".
- catalog subject "Photographic criticism.".
- catalog subject "Photography of families.".
- catalog subject "TR681.F28 H573 1997".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: Family Frames -- 1. Mourning and Postmemory -- 2. Reframing the Human Family Romance -- 3. Masking the Subject -- 4. Unconscious Optics -- 5. Maternal Exposures -- 6. Resisting Images -- 7. Pictures of a Displaced Girlhood -- 8. Past Lives.".
- catalog title "Family frames : photography, narrative, and postmemory / Marianne Hirsch.".
- catalog type "Folklore. fast".
- catalog type "text".