Contact zones : photography, migration, and cultural encounters in the United States

Since the mid-nineteenth century photography has had a central place in cultural encounters within and between migrant communities. Migrant histories have been mediated through the photographic image, and the cultural practices of photography have themselves been transformed as migrant communities mobilise the photographic image to navigate experiences of cultural dislocation and the forging of new identities. Exploring photographic images and the cultural practices of photography as 'contact zones' through which cultural exchange and transformation takes place, this volume addresses the role of photography in migrant histories in the United States from the mid-nineteenth century to today. Taking as its focal point photography's role in shaping migrant experiences of cultural transformation, and in turn how migrant experiences have re-configured culturally differentiated practices of photography, case studies on migration from Europe, Central America, and North America position photography as entwined with cultural histories of migration and cultural transformation in the United States. Free ebook available at OAPEN Library, JSTOR and Project Muse Contributors: Sarah Bassnett (Western University), David Bate (University of Westminster), Justin Carville (Institute of Art, Design & Technology, Dun Laoghaire), Erina Duganne (Texas State University), Orla Fitzpatrick (National Museum of Ireland), Bridget Gilman (San Diego State University), Aleksandra Idzior (University of Fraser Valley), Alexandra Irimia (University of Western Ontario), Sandra Križić Roban (Institute of Art History, Zagreb), Sigrid Lien (University of Bergen), Helene Roth (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich), Leslie Ureña (Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery) The role of photography in U.S. migrant histories Since the mid-nineteenth century photography has played a central role in cultural encounters within and between migrant communities in the United States. Migrant histories have been mediated through the photographic image, and the cultural practices of photography have themselves been transformed as migrant communities mobilise the photographic image to navigate experiences of cultural dislocation and the forging of new identities. Exploring photographic images and the cultural practices of photography as 'contact zones' through which cultural exchange and transformation takes place, this volume addresses the role of photography in migrant histories in the United States from the mid-nineteenth century to today. Taking as its focal point photography's role in shaping migrant experiences of cultural transformation, and how migrant experiences have re-configured culturally differentiated practices of photography, case studies on migration from Europe, Central America, and North America position photography as entwined with cultural histories of migration and cultural transformation in the United States. Contributors: Sarah Bassnett (Western University), David Bate (University of Westminster), Justin Carville (Institute of Art, Design & Technology, Dun Laoghaire), Erina Duganne (Texas State University), Orla Fitzpatrick (National Museum of Ireland), Bridget Gilman (Independent Scholar), Aleksandra Idzior (University of Fraser Valley), Alexandra Irimia (University of Western Ontario), Sandra Križić Roban (Institute of Art History, Zagreb), Sigrid Lien (University of Bergen), Helene Roth (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich), Leslie Ureña (Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery) Cover Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Contact ZonesPhotography, Migration, and the United States Justin Carville and Sigrid Lien Photographies, Representations, and Migrations The Figure of Migration David Bate Vernacular Photographies and Migration From Cavan to KansasA Photographic Album of Family Migration from Ireland to North America Orla Fitzpatrick A Letter from Pat in AmericaPhoto-remittances and the Irish American Diaspora Justin Carville Diasporic Imaginations “First Pictures”New York through the Lens of Emigrated European Photographers in the 1930s and 1940s Helene Roth Migrating Images of War and DislocationFrom War Zone to Contact Zone and from Photography to Photomontage Aleksandra Idzior Far from HomeWinston Vargas in Washington Heights Leslie Ureña Exhibiting Migrations A Box, a Suitcase, a MuseumPhotographic Records of Croatian Immigrants to the United States Sandra Križić Roban What Moves You?Georges Didi-Huberman’s Arts of Passage and Pittsburgh Stories of Migration Alexandra Irimia Documenting Migrations Searching for OleanaContemporary Photographic Negotiations of Migration and Settler-Colonial Tropes Sigrid Lien The Photographer as AdvocateRepresenting Migrant Communities in San Francisco and Tijuana Bridget Gilman Witnessing the Trauma of Undocumented Migrants in Mexico Sarah Bassnett There Was no Record of Her SmileMuriel Hasbun’s X Post Facto Erina Duganne Contributors Gallery with Color Plates