The Photographic Uncanny Photography, Homelessness, and Homesickness
This book argues for a renewed understanding of the fundamentally uncanny quality of the medium of photography. It especially makes the case for the capacity of certain photographs—precisely through their uncanniness—to contest structures of political and
- PDF / 5,736,559 Bytes
- 329 Pages / 433.701 x 612.283 pts Page_size
- 30 Downloads / 311 Views
The Photographic Uncanny “Raymond’s compelling book throws into relief the political uncanny that haunts photography and the homelessness—or instability—of photography. By returning to pre-Freudian understandings, Raymond’s lucid book draws out the political uncanny in the work of photographers whose images attend to estrangement, unbelonging, and moments of subtle political resistance. Raymond weaves together elegant close readings of photographs with a politics of seeing that attends to photography’s entanglement with moments of social violence and the uncanny experience of looking at photographs. Importantly, this book is subtly, but firmly, threaded through with a disquiet about the current political climate. Raymond’s sharp ability to combine cultural critique with rich and detailed discussions of a range of photographs makes this a revelatory book, one that has made me return to—to look again at—many photographs.” —Dr. Jane Simon, Macquarie University
Claire Raymond
The Photographic Uncanny Photography, Homelessness, and Homesickness
Claire Raymond University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA, USA
ISBN 978-3-030-28496-1 ISBN 978-3-030-28497-8 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28497-8 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, expressed or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover image: Cavan Images, Getty Images This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
Acknowledgements
Work on this book was supported by a fellowship at the International Center for Jefferson Studies, in Charlottesville, Virginia, where Endrina Tay was especially helpful and simpatico. Stephen Arata extended a Visiting Scholar position that gave me a short respite from teaching, and this made all the
Data Loading...