A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words. On Photographs, Talking Contexts and Visual Silences

This paper’s point of departure is that historic silences are socially constructed and culturally productive, and that photographs in archives participate in the creation of historical silences despite, or maybe thanks to, their convincing depicting qualities. In this essay, photographs from three o...

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Main Author: Mattias Frihammar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Linköping University Electronic Press 2020-05-01
Series:Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research
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Online Access:https://cultureunbound.ep.liu.se/article/view/952