Snapshot Stories by Erika Hanna

Snapshot Stories by Erika Hanna

During the twentieth century, men and women across Ireland picked up cameras, photographing days out at the beach, composing views of Ireland's cities and countryside, and recording political events as they witnessed them. Indeed, while foreign photographers often still focused on the image of Ireland as bucolic rural landscape, Irish photographers-snapshotter and professional alike-were creating and curating photographs which revealed more complex and diverse images of Ireland. Snapshot Stories explores these stories. Erika Hanna examines a diverse array of photographic sources, including family photograph albums, studio portraits, the work of photography clubs and community photography initiatives, alongside the output of those who took their cameras into the streets to record violence and poverty. The volume shows how Irish men and women used photography in order to explore their sense of self and society and examines how we can use these images to fill in the details of Ireland's social history. By exploring this rich array of sources, Snapshot Stories asks what it means to see-to look, to gaze, to glance-in modern Ireland, and explores how conflicts regarding vision and visuality have repeatedly been at the centre of Irish life.

Erika Hanna was born in Dublin and grew up in Ireland, Britain, and the United States. She has held positions at the Universities of Oxford, Leicester, and Edinburgh, and is currently Senior Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Bristol.

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ISBN 13	9780198823032
ISBN 10	0198823037
Titel	Snapshot Stories
Autor	Erika Hanna
Buchzustand	Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart	Hardback
Verlag	Oxford University Press
Erscheinungsjahr	2020-02-06
Seitenanzahl	282
Preise	Winner of Winner, British Association of Irish Studies Book Prize.
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.