Annette Kuhn – Photography and Culturally Memory
Annette Kuhn – Photography and Culturally Memory
Personal and family photographs figure importantly in offering ‘a productive way of understanding the social and cultural aspect of memory’ (P.283 )
…’the notions that memories are discursive and through which memory of various kinds is possible to understand how memory operates as a types of cultural text’. (P.283 -284)
Memory work: an active practise which takes an inquiring attitude towards the past and the activity of its construction through memory.
Reading a VISUAL medium has different procedures to an oral reminiscence.
Family photographs have considerable cultural significant, helpful to understand how the potential and social aspects of remembering interact in various cultural settings. —
<Annette Kuhn on textual analysis of an image P.284.>
Photography and memory work = distinctive, powerful in its originating as so everyday (photography) Hirsch 1997. (Kuhn, 2010, 285).
Family photographs generate new meanings when photography and memory work meet.