From clandestine images of Jewish children isolated in Nazi ghettos
and Japanese American children incarcerated in camps to images of
Native children removed to North American boarding schools,
classroom photographs of schoolchildren are pervasive even in
repressive historical and political contexts. School Photos in
Liquid Time offers a closer look at this genre of vernacular
photography, tracing how photography advances ideologies of social
assimilation as well as those of hierarchy and exclusion. In
Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer's deft analysis, school photographs
reveal connections between the histories of persecuted subjects in
different national and imperial centers. Exploring what this
ubiquitous and mundane but understudied genre tells us about
domination as well as resistance, the authors examine school photos
as documents of social life and agents of transformation. They
place them in dialogue with works by contemporary artists who
reframe, remediate, and elucidate them. Ambitious yet accessible,
School Photos in Liquid Time presents school photography as a new
access point into institutions of power, revealing the capacity of
past and present actors to disrupt and reinvent them.
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