Photography and cultural memory: a methodological exploration, Visual Studies

by Annette Kuhn

This is an interesting academic paper. Take a look at the abstract and decide if it is your kind of reading.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14725860701657175

Personal and family photographs figure importantly in cultural memory, and memory work with photographs offers a particularly productive route to understanding the social and cultural aspects of memory. Beginning with a study of one photograph, this article develops and interrogates a set of interlocking memory work methods for investigating the forms and everyday uses of ‘ordinary photography’ and how these figure in the production of memory.

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