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Citizens of Photography Christopher Pinney

Citizens of Photography By Christopher Pinney

Citizens of Photography by Christopher Pinney


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Through contemporary ethnographic investigations of photographic practice in Nicaragua, Nigeria, Greece, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Cambodia, Citizens of Photography explores how photography offers access to forms of citizenship beyond those available through ordinary politics.

Citizens of Photography Summary

Citizens of Photography: The Camera and the Political Imagination by Christopher Pinney

Citizens of Photography explores how photography offers access to forms of citizenship beyond those available through ordinary politics. Through contemporary ethnographic investigations of photographic practice in Nicaragua, Nigeria, Greece, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Cambodia, the PhotoDemos Collective traces the resonances between political representation and photographic representation. The authors emphasize photography as lived practice and how photographys performative, transformative, and transgressive possibilities facilitate the articulation of new identities. They analyze photography ranging from family albums and social media to state and public archives, showing how it points to new destinations in the context of social movements, the aftermath of atrocity and civil war, and the legacies of past injustices. By foregrounding photographys open-ended and contingent nature and its ability to subvert and reconfigure conventional political identifications, this volume demonstrates that as much as photography looks to the past, it points to the future, acting in advance of social reality.

Citizens of Photography Reviews

Ambitious in its theoretical and ethnographic reach, this vital volume robustly explores the unruly political potentialities of photography while laying out multiple directions for a future anthropology of photography. Citizens of Photography is a landmark book. -- Karen Strassler, author of * Demanding Images: Democracy, Mediation, and the Image-Event in Indonesia *

About Christopher Pinney

Christopher Pinney is Professor of Anthropology and Visual Culture at University College London and author of The Waterless Sea: A Curious History of Mirages.

Naluwembe Binaisa researches mobilities, belonging, and citizenship within Africa.

Vindhya Buthpitiya is Associate Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews.

Konstantinos Kalantzis is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Thessaly.

Ileana L. Selejan is Lecturer in Art History, Culture, and Society at the University of Edinburgh.

Sokphea Young is an honorary Research Fellow at University College London.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction. Photographing; or, the Future of the Image / Christopher Pinney 1
1. The Truth Is in the SoilThe Political Work of Photography in Northern Sri Lanka / Vidhya Buthpitiya 63
2. Visual Citizenship in CambodiaFrom Apocalypse to Visual Political Emancipation / Sokphea Young 111
3. Photography, Citizenship, and Accusatory Memory in the Greek Crisis / Konstantinos Kalantzis 150
4. Insurgent ArchiveThe Photographic Making and Unmaking of the Nicaraguan Revolutionary State / Ileana L. Selejan 192
5. We Are Moving with TechnologyPhotographing Voice and Belonging in Nigeria / Naluwembe Binaisa 234
6. Citizenship, Contingency, and FuturityPhotographic Ethnographies from Nepal, India, and Bangladesh / Christopher Pinney 273
Bibliography 319
Contributors 337
Index 339

Additional information

NGR9781478020769
9781478020769
1478020768
Citizens of Photography: The Camera and the Political Imagination by Christopher Pinney
New
Paperback
Duke University Press
2023-09-15
368
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