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Family Frames:

Photography, Narrative, and Postmemory
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Harvard University Press, 1997 - Photography - 304 pages

Family photographs--snapshots and portraits, affixed to the refrigerator or displayed in gilded frames, crammed into shoeboxes or cataloged in albums--preserve ancestral history and perpetuate memories. Indeed, photography has become the family's primary means of self-representation. In Family Frames Marianne Hirsch uncovers both the deception and the power behind this visual record.

Hirsch provocatively explores the photographic conventions for constructing family relationships and discusses artistic strategies for challenging those constructions. When we capture our family photographically, we are often responding to an idealized image. Contemporary artists and writers, Hirsch shows, have exposed the gap between lived reality and a perceived ideal to witness contradictions that shape visual representations of parents and children, siblings, lovers, or extended families. Exploring fiction, "imagetexts," and photographic essays, she elucidates their subversive devices, giving particular attention to literal and metaphorical masks. While permitting false impressions and misreadings, family photos have also proved a powerful means for shaping personal and cultural memory. Hirsch highlights a striking example: the wide variety of family pictures surviving the Holocaust and the wrenching displacements of late-twentieth-century history. Whether personal treasures, artistic constructions, or museum installations, these images link private memory to collective history.

  

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Contents

FAMILY FRAMES 1
26
REFRAMING THE HUMAN FAMILY ROMANCE
63
MASKING THE SUBJECT
79
A UNCONSCIOUS OPTICS
113
MATERNAL EXPOSURES
151
PICTURES OF A DISPLACED GIRLHOOD
219
PAST LIVES
243
Copyright

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JSTOR: Family Frames: Photography, Narrative, and Postmemory
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Family Frames: Photography, Narrative, and Postmemory by Marianne Hirsch, published by Harvard University Press.
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Family Frames: Photography, Narrative, and Postmemory
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Family Frames: Photography, Narrative, and Postmemory.(Review). Aufderheide, Pat. y Marianne Hirsch. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997, 336 pp., ...
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Indy Magazine
She is the author and editor of numerous books, including Family Frames: Photography, Narrative and Postmemory (1997), in which she discusses Maus. ...
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Blackwell Publishing Ltd/Inc. Oxford, UK; Malden, USA GEND Gender ...
My use of the term ‘image‐text’ is influenced by Marianne Hirsch, Family Frames: Photography, Narrative, and Postmemory (Cambridge: Harvard ...
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Photography’s Framings and Unframings: A Review Article
Family Frames: photography, narrative, and postmemory, by Marianne Hirsch (Cam-. bridge, MA, 1997). Camera Indica: The Social Life of Indian Photographs, ...
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Efraim Sicher - The Future of the Past: Countermemory and ...
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Index to Volume 27
Index to Volume 27. Author/Title Index, Books Reviewed. A. Abel, Emily, Hearts of Wisdom: American. Women Caring for Kin, 1850–1940, no. 3:926–30 ...
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About the author (1997)

Marianne Hirsch is William Peterfield Trent Professor of EngMarianne Hirsch is William Peterfield Trent Professor of English and Comparative Literature, and Co-Director of the Instlish and Comparative Literature, and Co-Director of the Institute of Research on Women and Gender, at Columbia Universititute of Research on Women and Gender, at Columbia University. She is the author of "Family Frames: Photography, Narratiy. She is the author of "Family Frames: Photography, Narrative, and Postmemory", among other books. Leo Spitzer is Katheve, and Postmemory", among other books. Leo Spitzer is Kathe Tappe Vernon Professor of History Emeritus at Dartmouth Col Tappe Vernon Professor of History Emeritus at Dartmouth College, and the author of many books, most recently "Hotel Bollege, and the author of many books, most recently "Hotel Bolivia: A Culture of Memory in a Refuge from Nazism." ivia: A Culture of Memory in a Refuge from Nazism.

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QR code for Family Frames
TitleFamily Frames: Photography, Narrative, and Postmemory
AuthorMarianne Hirsch
Editionillustrated
PublisherHarvard University Press, 1997
ISBN0674292650, 9780674292659
Length304 pages
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