Photography and Memory
Rethinking May '68
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4442080 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Antigoni Memou (0000-0003-2546-2132, University of East London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 83-96 |
| Publication date | 2011-09-20 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Philosophy of Photography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2040-3682 • E-ISSN: 2040-3690 |
| Publisher | Intellect (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1386/pop.2.1.83_1 |
| OpenAlex | W2313942757 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
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 facilitate his photographs' subsequent institutional framing. On this basis I argue that the predominant representational modes support hegemonic narratives of the events of May '68 and highlight questions regarding the current difficulty of attending to the representation of collective political action
Aesthetics · Art · Cognitive psychology · Documentation · Exhibition · Forgetting · Hegemony · Literature · Media studies · Narrative · Photography · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Visual arts · Computer Science · History · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Photography and Visual Culture · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |