In the Absence of the Photograph

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Author(s): Phil Hill (West Herts College, UK)
Copyright: 2023
Pages: 19
Source title: Handbook of Research on the Relationship Between Autobiographical Memory and Photography
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Mark Bruce Nigel Ingham (London College of Communication, University of the Arts London, UK), Nela Milic (London College of Communication, University of the Arts London, UK), Vasileios Kantas (University of West Attica, Greece), Sara Andersdotter (University for the Creative Arts, Sweden)and Paul Lowe (London College of Communication, University of the Arts London, UK)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-5337-7.ch015

Keywords: Art and Design / Computer Graphics & Art / Information Science Reference / Media & Communications

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This chapter considers the specific materiality of a defaced family photograph and the absence of narrative that it represents. The photograph is interrogated to open a dialogue and understand how the meaning of it has changed over time after the point it was made and not only the depicted moment that it shows. The photograph is discussed from the personal perspective of re-discovering the cut photographic print within the family archive and the shift in interpretation that it started. The chapter brings together this personal encounter with a defaced, undesirable photograph and other examples of theory and practice that deal with similar themes of intervention, photographic materiality, distributed memory, and absence that demonstrates the significance and value of photographs placed on a timeline over a singular moment. This is how photographs are part of a range of factors that support the construction of autobiographical memory.

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