[ecrea] New book: Picturing the Family: Media – Narrative - Memory

I would like to share with you the publication of /Picturing the Family: 
Media – Narrative - Memory/, co-edited by Silke Arnold-de Simine and 
Joanne Leal, which I hope might be relevant to anybody interested in 
vernacular photography and film, family memory, practices of mourning, 
autoethnographic approaches and practice-based research.

Whether pasted into an album, framed or shared on social media, the 
family photograph simultaneously offers a private and public insight 
into the identity and past of its subject. Long considered a model for 
understanding individual identity, the idea of the family has 
increasingly formed the basis for exploring collective pasts and 
cultural memory. /Picturing the Family/ investigates how visual 
representations of the family reveal both personal and shared histories, 
evaluating the testimonial and social value of photography and film.

Combining academic and creative, practice-based approaches, this 
collection of essays introduces a dialogue between scholars and artists 
working at the intersection between family, memory and visual media. 
Many of the authors are both researchers and practitioners, whose 
chapters engage with their own work and that of others, informed by 
critical frameworks. From the act of revisiting old, personal 
photographs to the sale of family albums through internet auction, the 
twelve chapters each present a different collection of photographs or 
artwork as case studies for understanding how these visual 
representations of the family perform memory and identity. Building on 
extensive research into family photographs and memory, the book 
considers the implications of new cultural forms for how the family is 
perceived and how we relate to the past. While focusing on the forms of 
visual representation, above all photographs, the authors also reflect 
on the contextualization and 'remediation' of photography in albums, 
films, museums and online.

You can find/Picturing the Family: Media – Narrative - Memory/ on the 
Bloomsbury website at 
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/picturing-the-family-9781474283601/

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