Photographic archives and archival entities

We often hear people qualifying photographs as ‘vernacular’, ‘subversive’, ‘official’, ‘propagandistic’ or ‘political’. The use of such adjectives to classify photographs is based on the institutionalisation of one particular mode of photography. Within this framework, photography is approached as a...

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Published inImage Operations p. 151
Main Author Azoulay, Ariella
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Manchester University Press 02.12.2016
Edition1
Subjects
International Committee of the Red Cross
Media Studies
Palestine
Photographic archives
Photography as vernacular practice
Unshowable photographs
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Summary:We often hear people qualifying photographs as ‘vernacular’, ‘subversive’, ‘official’, ‘propagandistic’ or ‘political’. The use of such adjectives to classify photographs is based on the institutionalisation of one particular mode of photography. Within this framework, photography is approached as a productive practice led by individuals who act as authors. The products these authors generate are conceived as signed and sealed, and can be classified independently of the event in which they were issued or later encountered. In other words, when speaking about vernacular photographs for example, it is implied that a photograph is the product of its authors, that its
ISBN:9781526107213
152610721X
DOI:10.7228/manchester/9781526107213.003.0012