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Book SynopsisZygmunt Bauman is known internationally as the sociologist of postmodernity and ‘liquid’ society. But he was also a serious photographer. This book presents a selection of his black-and-white photographs, together with a range of essays by colleagues, friends and family about his work with images.
The book features a mixture of short pieces on individual photographs and longer essays addressing aspects of Bauman’s photography and the life and work of his wife, Janina. These include an essay of Bauman’s from 1989, in which he considers Monika Krajewska’s photographs of abandoned Jewish graveyards in Poland. Also reprinted is an essay by Bauman’s daughter Lydia, taken from the catalogue of an exhibition of the photographs in 2010, and an essay by Keith Tester about Bauman’s interest in film. Jack Palmer discusses the relationship between Bauman’s sociology and his photography, while Peter Beilharz, Janet Wolff, and Antony Bryant and Griselda Pollock offer personal reflections on some of Bauman’s photographs. The book concludes with an essay by Karl Dudman, one of the Baumans’ grandchildren, based on a series of photographs he took in the family home shortly after his grandfather’s death.
Janina Bauman appears in a number of ways in the book. Some of the photographs are of her, and several of the short essays discuss her place in Zygmunt’s life and work. Izabela Wagner, biographer of Zygmunt Bauman, presents new material on Janina’s work in the Polish film industry in the post-war period.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: the photographs of Zygmunt Bauman
Figures, images, spaces: the place of photography Peter Beilharz
Pictures in words, words in pictures (2010) Lydia Bauman
Michael Sfard Photograph essay
Antony Bryant and Griselda Pollock Photograph essay
The war against forgetfulness (1989) Zygmunt Bauman
Sofia Hepworth Photograph essay
Lydia Bauman Photograph essay
Praxis, time, seeing: thoughts on the relationship between Zygmunt Bauman’s sociology and his photography Jack Palmer
Peter Beilharz Photograph essay
Emi Sfard Photograph essay
Captured by Zygmunt Janet Wolff
Anna Sfard Photograph essay
Sian Supski Photograph essay
Janina Bauman in Film Polski: window to the free world Izabela Wagner
Hana Bauman-Lyons Photograph essay
Janet Wolff Photograph essay
Bauman and Tester at the movies Peter Beilharz
Bauman and Bergman: a short note (2014) Keith Tester
Ben Hepworth Photograph essay
Karl Dudman Photograph essay
Gazing sociologically, thinking photographically, deciphering gender Antony Bryant and Griselda Pollock
Alex Bauman-Lyons Photograph essay
Irena Bauman Photograph essay
Smoke-filled rooms: photographs from the Bauman home Karl Dudman
