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History and Modern Media - A Personal Journey (Hardcover)
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History and Modern Media - A Personal Journey (Hardcover)
Series: Critical Mexican Studies
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In History and Modern Media, John Mraz largely focuses on Mexican
photography and his innovative methodology that examines historical
photographs by employing the concepts of genre and functions. He
developed this method in extensive work on photojournalism; it is
here tested through examining two genres: Indianist imagery as an
expression of imperial, neo-colonializing and decolonizing
photography, and progressive photography as embodied in worker and
laborist imagery, as well as feminist and decolonizing visuality.
The book interweaves an autobiographical narrative with concrete
research. Mraz describes the resistance he encountered in U.S.
academia to this new way of showing and describing the past, as
well as some illuminating experiences as a visiting professor at
several U.S. universities. More importantly, he reflects on what it
has meant to move to Mexico and become a Mexican. Mexico is home to
a thriving school of photohistorians perhaps unequaled in the
world. Some were trained in Art History, and a few continue to
pursue that discipline. However, the great majority work from the
discipline we have here defined as 'photohistory,' which focuses on
vernacular photographs, those made outside of artistic intentions,
and which constitute some 98% of all photographic images. A central
premise of the book is that knowing past and other cultures is
crucial in societies dominated by short-term and parochial
thinking, and that today's hyper-audiovisuality requires historians
to use modern media to offer their knowledge as alternatives to the
'perpetual present' in which we live.
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