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Book SynopsisSince the mid-nineteenth century photography has had a central place in cultural encounters within and between migrant communities. Migrant histories have been mediated through the photographic image, and the cultural practices of photography have themselves been transformed as migrant communities mobilise the photographic image to navigate experiences of cultural dislocation and the forging of new identities. Exploring photographic images and the cultural practices of photography as 'contact zones' through which cultural exchange and transformation takes place, this volume addresses the role of photography in migrant histories in the United States from the mid-nineteenth century to today. Taking as its focal point photography's role in shaping migrant experiences of cultural transformation, and in turn how migrant experiences have re-configured culturally differentiated practices of photography, case studies on migration from Europe, Central America, and North America position photography as entwined with cultural histories of migration and cultural transformation in the United States. Free ebook available at OAPEN Library, JSTOR and Project Muse Contributors: Sarah Bassnett (Western University), David Bate (University of Westminster), Justin Carville (Institute of Art, Design & Technology, Dun Laoghaire), Erina Duganne (University of Texas, Austin), Orla Fitzpatrick (National Museum of Ireland), Bridget Gilman (San Diego State University), Aleksandra Idzior (University of Fraser Valley), Alexandra Irimia (University of Western Ontario), Sandra Krizic Roban (Institute of Art History, Zagreb), Sigrid Lien (University of Bergen), Helene Roth (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munich), Leslie Urena (Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery)
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
INTRODUCTION
Contact Zones: Photography, Migration, and the United States
Justin Carville and Sigrid Lien
PHOTOGR APHIES, REPRESENTATIONS, AND MIGRATIONS
The Figure of Migration
David Bate
VERNACULAR PHOTOGR APHIES AND MIGR ATION
From Cavan to Kansas: A Photographic Album of Family Migration from Ireland to North America
Orla Fitzpatrick
A Letter from Pat in America: Photo-remittances and the Irish American Diaspora
Justin Carville
DIASPORIC IMAGINATIONS
“First Pictures”: New York through the Lens of Emigrated European Photographers in the 1930s and 1940s
Helene Roth
Migrating Images of War and Dislocation: From War Zone to Contact Zone and from Photography to Photomontage
Aleksandra Idzior
Far from Home: Winston Vargas in Washington Heights
Leslie Ureña
EXHIBITING MIGRATIONS
A Box, a Suitcase, a Museum Photographic Records of Croatian Immigrants to the United States
Sandra Križić Roban
What Moves You? Georges Didi-Huberman’s Arts of Passage and Pittsburgh Stories of Migration
Alexandra Irimia
DOCUMENTING MIGRATIONS
Searching for Oleana: Contemporary Photographic Negotiations of Migration and Settler-Colonial Tropes
Sigrid Lien
The Photographer as Advocate: Representing Migrant Communities in San Francisco and Tijuana
Bridget Gilman
Witnessing the Trauma of Undocumented Migrants in Mexico
Sarah Bassnett
There Was no Record of Her Smile: Muriel Hasbun’s X post facto Erina Duganne
Contributors
Gallery with Color Plates
