Photoworks AnnualIssue 20: Family Politics
Published by:
Photoworks
220 pages
26 x 21 cm
Softcover
2013
£20.00
With Issue 20, Photoworks becomes Photoworks Annual with a new format and a fresh design.
Taking the theme Family Politics, the eagerly anticipated issue explores contemporary thinking on the most universal of photographic subjects. Contents include: commissioned work from Jowhara AlSaud and Claudia Sola, folios by Broomberg & Chanarin, David Moore, Dennis Yermoshin and John Clang; conversations between: Marianne Hirsch and Lorie Novak, Wendy Ewald and Anthony Luvera, Bettina von Zwehl and Kelley Wilder and writings from Michael Bonesteel, Susan Bright, Terry Dennett, Geoffrey Batchen, Blake Stimson, Sarah James, Stephanie Schwartz, Jack Halberstam, Aaron Schuman, Blake Morrison, Andrew Kötting, Sue Hubbard and David Campany amongst others.
‘The subject of ‘The Family’ can be both private and public: the site of intimate inter-personal relations and a social construct subject to public and political pressures. This relationship is mirrored in examples of family photography. The majority of family pictures serve essentially private functions, accruing meaning through their relationship to the memories, experiences and histories of individuals. However, the family is also the subject of public photographic representation and contestation, largely through digital media and over sharing. This involves a wide variety of practices, including representations in the mass media, art and advertising.