Exhibiting Loss and Salvaging the Everyday

Photography, Objects and the Missing

Bibliographic Data

ID3040652
AuthorsMartine Hawkes (0000-0002-9144-3020, Swinburne University of Technology, corresponding author)
Year2014
Volume20
Issue2
Publication date2014-08-07
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCultural Studies Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1446-8123 • E-ISSN: 1837-8692
PublisherUniversity of Technology, Sydney (UTS) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5130/csr.v20i2.4054
OpenAlexW2051677441
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited7

By the end of the conflict in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s an estimated 22,438 people were unaccounted for. Their whereabouts were unknown or their remains were missing. The clarification of the fate of the missing is a fundamental component of transitional justice processes. Taking as its focus two photographic projects-one with forensic identification purposes and the other with a memorialisation focus-this article explores the juridical and memorialisation contexts in which these photographs circulate, asking how photographs might be, on the one hand, practical tools for the identification of remains, but also, at the same time, act as visual vehicles for raising awareness and action around the broader justice questions concerning the clarification of the fate of the missing

Action (physics · Aesthetics · Art · Economic Justice · Epistemology · Focus (optics · Identification (biology · Media studies · Photography · Political science · Project commissioning · Publishing · Social justice · Social science · Sociology · Visual arts · History · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law · Law in Society and Culture · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Philosophy

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