Antigoni Memou
Biographic Data
| ID | 1666499 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Antigoni Memou |
| GIVEN NAMES | Antigoni |
| FAMILY NAME | Memou |
| SIGNATURE | MEMOU A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of East London |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2546-2132 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Photographs of Solidarity and Archival Memory in the Miners’ Strike 1984–1985
The paper discusses the cultural memory of the Miners’ Strike 1984-1985 and questions the role that photographic documents can play in the process of memorialisation of the events. The photographs of solidarity groups composed of women and LGBT people taken by Format agency photographers and currently held in archives have been largely understudied. The paper discusses whether revisiting these neglected photographic documents taken at the time mi…
Spectacular Images of the “Refugee Crisis”
The current “refugee crisis” in Europe has generated an abundance of photographs, which have been circulated in print and digital media since 2015. This article focuses on two of the most reproduced of these photographs: that taken in September 2015 of Aylan Kurdi’s dead body near the Turkish coast and a photograph of refugees walking along the Croatian‒Slovenian border which was used by the UK Independence Party (UKIP) during the summer of 2016 …
Art, Activism and the Tate
The display of Allan Sekula’s Waiting for Tear Gas (white Globe to Black) at Tate Modern from July 2013 to May 2014 coincided partly with Liberate Tate’s creative civil disobedience against Tate’s engagement with their sponsor British Petroleum. The paper examines these two parallel episodes of Tate’s recent institutional history, focusing on the tension emerging from the Tate’s display of an artwork, which stems directly from a grassroots activi…
La Culture est l’Inversion de la Vie
Constructed Situations: A New History of the Situationist International, Frances Stracey (2014) London: Pluto, 200 pp., ISBN: 9780745335261, p/bk, £15.00
Media and Revolt
Globalisation and the Art Photography of Joel Sternfeld
The article discusses Joel Sternfeld's project Treading on Kings: Protesting the G8 in Genoa (2001) published on the occasion of an exhibition of Sternfeld's project at the White Box Gallery in New York. The series of twenty-seven formal portraits, which form the basic body of the book, was taken during the anti-globalisation protests in Genoa in 2001 documenting the resistance to the limits of globalisation. The paper examines the project placin…
Photography and Memory
This article takes as its starting point an exhibition of photographs of May '68 by photojournalist Bruno Barbey at the Hayward Gallery in London in 2008, in order to consider the role that photography has played in shaping the memory and the forgetting of May '68, 40 years on. The article examines the problematic of the documentation and display of protest photographs, focusing on how compositional decisions by the photographer have come to faci…
When It Bleeds, It Leads’
This article examines the photograph of the dead body of Carlo Giuliani in the anti‐capitalist protests in Genoa (2001), taken by the Reuters photojournalist, Dylan Martinez. The article discusses the centrality of the photograph in the European press coverage in relation to issues of censorship, aesthetics and politics, and argues that the main reasons for its repeated publication are its iconic power and its accordance with the mass media narra…
Spectacular Images of the “Refugee Crisis”
The current “refugee crisis” in Europe has generated an abundance of photographs, which have been circulated in print and digital media since 2015. This article focuses on two of the most reproduced of these photographs: that taken in September 2015 of Aylan Kurdi’s dead body near the Turkish coast and a photograph of refugees walking along the Croatian‒Slovenian border which was used by the UK Independence Party (UKIP) during the summer of 2016 …
When It Bleeds, It Leads’
This article examines the photograph of the dead body of Carlo Giuliani in the anti‐capitalist protests in Genoa (2001), taken by the Reuters photojournalist, Dylan Martinez. The article discusses the centrality of the photograph in the European press coverage in relation to issues of censorship, aesthetics and politics, and argues that the main reasons for its repeated publication are its iconic power and its accordance with the mass media narra…
Photography and Memory
This article takes as its starting point an exhibition of photographs of May '68 by photojournalist Bruno Barbey at the Hayward Gallery in London in 2008, in order to consider the role that photography has played in shaping the memory and the forgetting of May '68, 40 years on. The article examines the problematic of the documentation and display of protest photographs, focusing on how compositional decisions by the photographer have come to faci…
When It Bleeds, It Leads’
This article examines the photograph of the dead body of Carlo Giuliani in the anti‐capitalist protests in Genoa (2001), taken by the Reuters photojournalist, Dylan Martinez. The article discusses the centrality of the photograph in the European press coverage in relation to issues of censorship, aesthetics and politics, and argues that the main reasons for its repeated publication are its iconic power and its accordance with the mass media narra…
Photography and Memory
This article takes as its starting point an exhibition of photographs of May '68 by photojournalist Bruno Barbey at the Hayward Gallery in London in 2008, in order to consider the role that photography has played in shaping the memory and the forgetting of May '68, 40 years on. The article examines the problematic of the documentation and display of protest photographs, focusing on how compositional decisions by the photographer have come to faci…
Globalisation and the Art Photography of Joel Sternfeld
The article discusses Joel Sternfeld's project Treading on Kings: Protesting the G8 in Genoa (2001) published on the occasion of an exhibition of Sternfeld's project at the White Box Gallery in New York. The series of twenty-seven formal portraits, which form the basic body of the book, was taken during the anti-globalisation protests in Genoa in 2001 documenting the resistance to the limits of globalisation. The paper examines the project placin…
Media and Revolt
La Culture est l’Inversion de la Vie
Constructed Situations: A New History of the Situationist International, Frances Stracey (2014) London: Pluto, 200 pp., ISBN: 9780745335261, p/bk, £15.00
Art, Activism and the Tate
The display of Allan Sekula’s Waiting for Tear Gas (white Globe to Black) at Tate Modern from July 2013 to May 2014 coincided partly with Liberate Tate’s creative civil disobedience against Tate’s engagement with their sponsor British Petroleum. The paper examines these two parallel episodes of Tate’s recent institutional history, focusing on the tension emerging from the Tate’s display of an artwork, which stems directly from a grassroots activi…
Spectacular Images of the “Refugee Crisis”
The current “refugee crisis” in Europe has generated an abundance of photographs, which have been circulated in print and digital media since 2015. This article focuses on two of the most reproduced of these photographs: that taken in September 2015 of Aylan Kurdi’s dead body near the Turkish coast and a photograph of refugees walking along the Croatian‒Slovenian border which was used by the UK Independence Party (UKIP) during the summer of 2016 …
Photographs of Solidarity and Archival Memory in the Miners’ Strike 1984–1985
The paper discusses the cultural memory of the Miners’ Strike 1984-1985 and questions the role that photographic documents can play in the process of memorialisation of the events. The photographs of solidarity groups composed of women and LGBT people taken by Format agency photographers and currently held in archives have been largely understudied. The paper discusses whether revisiting these neglected photographic documents taken at the time mi…
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