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    THEORIZING THE SNAPSHOT: FAMILY PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF IDENTITY

    THEORIZING THE SNAPSHOT: FAMILY PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF IDENTITY

    $30.00 USD
    $30.00 USD
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    Willie Hiatt via Zoom

    In recent years, scholars of visual culture have begun taking seriously personal or family photographs as an important means of identity construction. According to Patricia Holland, the study of the content and the way in which these photos are displayed in the home have “developed as a medium through which individuals confirm and explore their identity, that sense of selfhood which is an essential part of a modern sensibility.” The lecture addresses the history of personal photography with the emergence of affordable cameras around the turn of the twentieth century and explores its role in creating or challenging racial, class, gender, and sexual identities.

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    About the lecturer(s)

    Willie Hiatt

    Willie Hiatt, a Kentucky native, is an Associate Professor of History at Long Island University, Post Campus, and a former Society for the Humanities Fellow at Cornell University (2019-20). He’s the author of The Rarified Air of the Modern: Airplanes and Technological Modernity in the Andes (Oxford, 2016). His current research is an oral history project examining how Maoist insurgents in Peru targeted high-tension towers during the Shining Path movement (1980-92).

    Lecture Details

    Program
    Fall 2024
    Sessions
    1 lecture(s)
    Day & Time
    Monday, 10:00-12 noon
    Date(s)
    Sep 09, 2024