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Make the Most of Your Memories: Re-Enactment Phototherapy, Auto-Ethnography, Memorialisation
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Author(s): Rosy Martin (Independent Researcher, UK)
Copyright: 2023
Pages: 33
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.ch012
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Abstract
This chapter examines a 40-year photographic practice that has focused upon the relationships between photography and memory. A brief critique of the ‘family album' collection is countered by how it can be opened up. A description is given of how the methodologies of re-enactment phototherapy evolved and developed, illustrated through examples. Memorialisation and the creation of new rituals is set within the history of post-mortem photography. A longitudinal auto-ethnographic study of a 1930s suburban semi-detached home examines both statis and change over time. This too becomes a study of the need for memorialisation and the quotidian every-day. Re-enactment phototherapy is returned to as a means of embodying loss and grief. Acts of reparation and ambivalence are given recognition and representation, as memory itself shifts and changes to accommodate conflicting emotions.
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