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1 online resource (270 pages) |
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Cover; Half-title; Endorsements; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of contents; Table of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Searching for mass photography: names and terms; Searching for mass photography: debates and issues; Searching for mass photography: an archival journey; Searching for mass photography: approaches and tools I; Subject-based analytical methods: what photographs show; Searching for mass photography: approaches and tools II; Meaning-based analytical methods: what photographs do; Structure of the book; 1 Days in the Life |
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From Life in a Day to A Day in the World: recent mass-participation projectsNew technologies, old stories: circadian narratives and photographic worldviews; New quantities and long-standing desires: photographic totalisation; 2 One Day for Life; Beginnings and inspirations: One Day for Life as an idea; Intentions, accidents and ambitions: One Day for Life in the planning; Establishing One Day for Life: sponsors, patrons, publicity; Billboards, talk shows, airships: One Day for Life in promotion; The submission deadline: sorting and selecting; Judgment day: winners and losers |
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Book launch and promotion: in print and on the shelvesSearch 88 after One Day for Life: decline and fall; One Day for Life after Search 88: rescue and retrieval; One Day for Life as an archive: forms, shapes and tropes; 1. Photographic subjects: the â#x80;#x9C;whatâ#x80;#x9D; of the archive; 2. Techniques and forms: the â#x80;#x9C;howâ#x80;#x9D; as well as the â#x80;#x9C;whatâ#x80;#x9D;; 3. Considering participation: the â#x80;#x9C;whyâ#x80;#x9D; and the â#x80;#x9C;whoâ#x80;#x9D;; 4. Writing the image: inscriptions, explanations, captions; Thinking with an archive: One Day for Lifeâ#x80;#x99;s institutionalisation; From archive to art: One Day for Life in the gallery |
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From overlooked to minutely scrutinised: the archive is reanimated3 Everyday Life and Ordinary Photography; Promotion and self-definition: everyday life and the typical; Ordinary / special; typical / extraordinary: contradictions and oppositions; The people: everyone or others?; â#x80;#x9C;Typical photographsâ#x80;#x9D; or photographs of â#x80;#x9C;the typicalâ#x80;#x9D;?; Where is ordinary / everyday photography?; The everyday: philosophies, ambiguities, impossibilities; Reflexive and participatory: unofficial history, documentary and ethnography; Enactment and performance: picturing everydayness |
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Exceptionalising the ordinary, defamiliarising the familiarConclusion; 4 Scale and Monumentality; Significance and magnitude: record-breaking superlatives; Quantity and dimension: from mass to massive; Collective, aggregate, other: mass as â#x80;#x9C;usâ#x80;#x9D; and â#x80;#x9C;themâ#x80;#x9D;; Seeing with multiple eyes: collective representation; Monumentality: immense and enduring; Participation, pride and promise: mass photography as community building; National iconographic repertoires in everyday life; Universal statements of representation; â#x80;#x9C;Usâ#x80;#x9D;: where?; Political agendas, contestations, and counter-narratives |
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Pride and shame: whose Britain? |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Photography -- History
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Mass production.
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Mass production
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Photography
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780857729392 |
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085772939X |
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