Barnaby Haran
Biographic Data
| ID | 1162999 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barnaby Haran |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barnaby |
| FAMILY NAME | Haran |
| SIGNATURE | HARAN B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hull City Council |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1634-2171 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Revolutionary Symbolism of Angelo Herndon
This article examines the photographic representation of Angelo Herndon, a Black Communist who was arrested in 1932 in Atlanta through seldom-used Georgian anti-insurrection legislation. Herndon (aged 19) endured many months in jail and faced 18-20 years on a chain gang for organizing an unemployment protest. Directed by the legal organisation International Labor Defense (ILD), Communist media propagandized Herndon as a revolutionary symbol of an…
The Hands of Fortune
In 1931, Fortune published an article entitled ‘American Workingman’, a survey of labor in the midst of the worsening Depression, with an emblematic composite image of hands at work to indicate the manual character and the diverse jobs of industrial work. The picture conveys the polysemy of hands as a synecdoche of labor, and witnesses the prevalence of close-up depictions of hands at work in other Fortune features on specific industries, from wh…
Photography in the Big Frame
On 25 March 1931 nine young African Americans were arrested in Alabama for the alleged rape of two White women, nearly lynched, sentenced to death and eventually incarcerated for years. This article examines the arrest photograph of the Scottsboro Nine and enacts a ‘social biography’ in exploring its conflicting uses in American media. The article proposes that it is an ‘averted lynching photograph’ that echoes images of actual lynch mob killings…
Documenting an ‘Age‐Long Struggle’
artists, and writers presided over by Alfred Stieglitz, he was unsuccessful in this application (a 'crime', wrote Clurman), but Clurman's tribute was nevertheless a perceptive characterization of Strand's photography towards the end of his 'transition years', as Steve Yates's terms them, when he spent the summers of 1930, 1931, and 1932 extensively photographing American Southwest from his temporary base in Taos, New Mexico
Tractor Factory Facts
This article examines the particular form of documentary that the photographer Margaret Bourke-White employed in her images of sovietisation during the first Five-Year Plan in Russia. By her own admission she was more interested in machines than politics in producing the images that appeared in her 1931 book Eyes on Russia and in several magazine publications. Aiming to provide ‘photographic records might have some historical value’ by detailing …
Machine, Montage, and Myth
This article looks at the film journal Experimental Cinema in relation to the radical Workers Film and Photo League
Homeless Houses
This article examines images of Victorian houses by Walker Evans in relation to the theory of the archive
Modernism into America
Modernism into America Jennifer R. Gross (ed.): The Société Anonyme: Modernism for America ( Yale University Press: New Haven, CT, 2006), 302 colour plates, 62 b&w illns, 252 pp., hardback ISBN 0-300-10921-0, £40.00. Jay Bochner: An American Lens: Scenes from Alfred Stieglitz's New York Secession ( The MIT Press: Cambridge, MA, 2005), 82 b&w illns, 400 pp., hardback ISBN 0-262-02580-9, £25.95. Barnaby Haran Barnaby Haran Search for other works by…
Americanism in Paris
Sophie Lévy (ed.): A Transatlantic Avant-Garde: American Artists in Paris, 1918–1939 (University of California Press: Berkeley and Los Angeles, 2004), 200 colour plates, 45 b&w illns, 264 pp., paperback ISBN 0 300 09220 6, £22.00. The American expatriate painter Gerald Murphy once told F.Scott Fitzgerald that ‘only the invented parts of our life have any real meaning’.1 Murphy, who travelled to Paris in 1921, was famously the inspiration for Dick…
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Americanism in Paris
Sophie Lévy (ed.): A Transatlantic Avant-Garde: American Artists in Paris, 1918–1939 (University of California Press: Berkeley and Los Angeles, 2004), 200 colour plates, 45 b&w illns, 264 pp., paperback ISBN 0 300 09220 6, £22.00. The American expatriate painter Gerald Murphy once told F.Scott Fitzgerald that ‘only the invented parts of our life have any real meaning’.1 Murphy, who travelled to Paris in 1921, was famously the inspiration for Dick…
Modernism into America
Modernism into America Jennifer R. Gross (ed.): The Société Anonyme: Modernism for America ( Yale University Press: New Haven, CT, 2006), 302 colour plates, 62 b&w illns, 252 pp., hardback ISBN 0-300-10921-0, £40.00. Jay Bochner: An American Lens: Scenes from Alfred Stieglitz's New York Secession ( The MIT Press: Cambridge, MA, 2005), 82 b&w illns, 400 pp., hardback ISBN 0-262-02580-9, £25.95. Barnaby Haran Barnaby Haran Search for other works by…
Homeless Houses
This article examines images of Victorian houses by Walker Evans in relation to the theory of the archive
Machine, Montage, and Myth
This article looks at the film journal Experimental Cinema in relation to the radical Workers Film and Photo League
Tractor Factory Facts
This article examines the particular form of documentary that the photographer Margaret Bourke-White employed in her images of sovietisation during the first Five-Year Plan in Russia. By her own admission she was more interested in machines than politics in producing the images that appeared in her 1931 book Eyes on Russia and in several magazine publications. Aiming to provide ‘photographic records might have some historical value’ by detailing …
Documenting an ‘Age‐Long Struggle’
artists, and writers presided over by Alfred Stieglitz, he was unsuccessful in this application (a 'crime', wrote Clurman), but Clurman's tribute was nevertheless a perceptive characterization of Strand's photography towards the end of his 'transition years', as Steve Yates's terms them, when he spent the summers of 1930, 1931, and 1932 extensively photographing American Southwest from his temporary base in Taos, New Mexico
The Hands of Fortune
In 1931, Fortune published an article entitled ‘American Workingman’, a survey of labor in the midst of the worsening Depression, with an emblematic composite image of hands at work to indicate the manual character and the diverse jobs of industrial work. The picture conveys the polysemy of hands as a synecdoche of labor, and witnesses the prevalence of close-up depictions of hands at work in other Fortune features on specific industries, from wh…
Photography in the Big Frame
On 25 March 1931 nine young African Americans were arrested in Alabama for the alleged rape of two White women, nearly lynched, sentenced to death and eventually incarcerated for years. This article examines the arrest photograph of the Scottsboro Nine and enacts a ‘social biography’ in exploring its conflicting uses in American media. The article proposes that it is an ‘averted lynching photograph’ that echoes images of actual lynch mob killings…
The Revolutionary Symbolism of Angelo Herndon
This article examines the photographic representation of Angelo Herndon, a Black Communist who was arrested in 1932 in Atlanta through seldom-used Georgian anti-insurrection legislation. Herndon (aged 19) endured many months in jail and faced 18-20 years on a chain gang for organizing an unemployment protest. Directed by the legal organisation International Labor Defense (ILD), Communist media propagandized Herndon as a revolutionary symbol of an…
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