Mass Photography

Collective Histories of Everyday Life
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-367-71655-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 268 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 500 g

With increasingly accessible camera technology, crowdsourced public media projects abound like never before. Such projects often seek to secure a snapshot of a single day in order to establish communities and create visual time capsules for the future. Mass Photography: Collective Histories of Everyday Life assesses the potential of these popular moment-in-time projects by examining their current day prevalence and their historical predecessors. Through archival research and interviews with organisers and participants, it examines, 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. The central case study is the 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’.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pollen, Annebella

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Fotografie Fotografie: Ausrüstung & Technik
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Fotografie Fotografie: Geschichte und Sammlungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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