Oral History and Photography

This essay collection explores the "photographic turn" in oral history. Contributors ask how oral historians can best use photographs in their interviewing practice and how they can best understand photographs in their interpretation of oral histories. The authors present a dozen case studies from Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States. In exploring the intersection of oral history and photography, they complicate and move beyond the use of photographs as social documents and memory triggers and demonstrate how photographs frame oral narratives and how stories unsettle the seeming fixity of photographs' meanings.

Author: A. Freund
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 10/30/2012
Pages: 252
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.10h x 5.90w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9781137280626
ISBN10: 113728062X
BISAC Categories:
- History | Modern | General
- History | Essays
- History | Social History

About the Author
ALEXANDER FREUND Chair in German-Canadian Studies at the University of Winnipeg, Canada.
ALISTAIR THOMSON Professor of History at Monash University, Australia.