TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hirsch,Marianne
TI  - Family frames: photography, narrative, and postmemory
SN  - 9781470007485
AV  - TR 681 HIR 
PY  - 2012///]
CY  - Cambridge, Massachusetts
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Memory in art
KW  - Photography
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - Photography of families
KW  - Photographic criticism
KW  - Families
KW  - Folklore
N1  - Originally published: 1997; Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: Family Frames --; 1; Mourning and Postmemory --; 2; Reframing the Human Family Romance --; 3; Masking the Subject --; 4; Unconscious Optics --; 5; Maternal Exposures --; 6; Resisting Images --; 7; Pictures of a Displaced Girlhood --; 8; Past Lives
N2  - "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: a 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."--Jacket
ER  -