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Steidl/The Walther Collection, New York

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STEIDL/THE WALTHER COLLECTION, NEW YORK

Imagining Everyday Life: Engagements with Vernacular Photography

Edited by Tina Campt, Marianne Hirsch, Gil Hochberg, Brian Wallis.

Imagining Everyday Life: Engagements with Vernacular Photography

A survey of the expansive field of vernacular photography, from identification portraits of migrant workers to one-of-a-kind commemorative military albums

A Wall Street Journal 2020 holiday gift guide pick

Imagining Everyday Life: Engagements with Vernacular Photography surveys the expansive field of vernacular photography, the vast archive of utilitarian images created for bureaucratic structures, commercial usage and personal commemoration (as opposed to aesthetic purposes). As a crucial extension of its ongoing investigation of vernacular photography, the Walther Collection has collaborated with key scholars and critical thinkers in the history of photography, women’s studies, queer theory, Africana studies and curatorial practice to interrogate vernacular’s theoretical limits, as well as to conduct case studies of a striking array of objects and images, many from the collection’s holdings.

From identification portraits of California migrant workers, physique photographs that circulated underground in queer communities, to one-of-a-kind commemorative military albums from Louisiana to Vietnam, these richly illustrated essays treat a breadth of material formats, social uses and shared communities, offering new ways to consider photography in relation to our political affiliations, personal agency and daily rituals.

Imagining Everyday Life evolved from a two-day symposium at Columbia University in October 2018—a collaboration between the Walther Collection, Barnard’s Center for Research on Women and the Center for the Study of Social Difference at Columbia University. This publication unfolds in four parts: Why Vernacular Photography? The Limits and Possibilities of A Field; Troubling Portraiture: Photographic Portraits and The Shadow Archive; Performance and Transformation: Photographic (Re)visions of Subjectivity; and Space, Materiality and the Social Worlds of the Photograph.

Texts by Ariella Azoulay, Geoffrey Batchen, Ali Behdad, Elspeth Brown, Clément Chéroux, Lily Cho, Nicole Fleetwood, Sophie Hackett, Patricia Hayes, Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Thy Phu, Leigh Raiford, Shawn Michelle Smith, Drew Thompson, Laura Wexler, and Deborah Willis.


A spread from 'Imagining Everyday Life: Engagements with Vernacular Photography.'

PRAISE AND REVIEWS

GUP

Linda Zhengová

The authors are signalling both the significance and the problems related to the public display of vernacular photographs, covering the topic in relation to theories about power and ideology in addition to race, gender, ethnicity and sexuality within the context of the images’ origin.

Wall Street Journal

William Meyers

Imagining Everyday Life” reprints what the 21 authorities had to say. One listed as examples “headshots or mug shots, real estate photos or crime scene shots”; another discussed “creative ways . . . the photographic object is placed and preserved” in African-American family albums. Mr. Batchen suggested abandoning his term “vernacular photography” and to “instead speak only of ‘photography.’ ” The 360 images include examples of beefcake, employee identification badges and high-school class portraits.

Finalist for the Lucie Photobook Prize Award

Imagining Everyday Life: Engagements with Vernacular Photography

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