Mass Photography: Collective Histories of Everyday Life

ISBN-13: 9781784530112 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 268 str.

Annebella Pollen

Opis

With increasingly accessible camera technology available, crowdsourced collective histories of everyday life, which harness amateur photographers to secure a snapshot of a single day, abound like never before. Mass Photography assesses the potential of these popular moment-in-time projects by examining their historical predecessors. It views for the first time the vast photographic collections resulting from such projects, analysing their structures and systems, their aims and objectives, and their claims and promises, using interviews with an array of the experts & amateurs involved. The central case study is of 55,000 photographs submitted to One Day for Life in 1987, which aimed, in its own time, to be the biggest photographic event the world had ever seen ."

Spis treści

List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Approaching Mass Photography: Methods, Models and DebatesChapter 1: Days in the life: From Mass Observation to crowdsourcingChapter 2: One Day for Life: Charity, competition, archiveChapter 3: Everyday life and ordinary photography: Documentary hopes and expectationsChapter 4: Scale and monumentality: Collective identity and imagined communityChapter 5: Humanism and compassion: Photographic democracy and emotional affectChapter 6: Competitive aesthetics: Art, amateurism and ambitionChapter 7: Visual time capsules: Photographic memory and historical desireChapter 8: Legacies, promises and potentialAppendix: Research methodsIndex

O autorze

Annebella Pollen is Principal Lecturer and Academic Programme Leader in the History of Art and Design at the University of Brighton, UK.