Photographic Memory, Ageing and the Life Course
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11201969 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrew Blaikie (0000-0001-7913-6872, University of Aberdeen, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1994 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 479-497 |
| Publication date | 1994-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ageing and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0144-686X • E-ISSN: 1469-1779 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0144686x00001872 |
| OpenAlex | W2111326171 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 31 |
Although photographs are frequently used to illustrate discussions about ageing they have not been assessed critically as gerontological sources. This paper argues that the pictorial record since the 1840s contains many problems and possibilities. A case study of Victorian Scotland indicates the methodological pitfalls of acknowledging images at face value. Uncritical acceptance of the assumptions of modernisation theory has underlain much of the received wisdom on ageing in former times. More generally, both academics and advocates in Postwar Britain have reworked stereotypes of old age to suit their own aims. Against this, the convergence of reminiscence and a willingness to develop more interactive approaches to understanding the life course allows photographs to provide a resource for interpreting the ageing self. Nevertheless, as the examples show, difficulties again arise as the ambiguity and malleability of images all too easily enables generalised fictions to shroud the diversity of individual experience
Aesthetics · Ambiguity · Art · Cognitive psychology · Convergence (economics) · Diversity (politics) · Epistemology · Face (sociological concept) · Life course approach · Linguistics · Modernization theory · Political science · Reminiscence · Social science · Sociology · Value (mathematics) · Aging and Gerontology Research · Anthropology · Computer Science · Law · Nostalgia and Consumer Behavior · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
Aging and modernization.
Becoming and Being Old
World Revolution and Family Patterns.
Old Age in the New Land
The culture of narcissism
Family and Kinship in East London
Approaching Invisibility
On Collective Memory
History of Old Age from Antiquity to the Renaissance
Medicine and Visual Culture
Tourism and commercial photography in Victorian Scotland
History of old age
Images of Elderly in Popular Magazines
The Emerging Political Power of the Elderly in Britain 1908–1948
TV's Image of the Elderly
The Culture of Narcissism
Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema
The Visibility and Image of Old People on Television
The condition of postmodernity
The Infancy of the History of Childhood
The Condition of Postmodernity
Modern Death
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,07 |
| Citation span | 1996 - 2001 (6) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |