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Alexandra, Iakovleva (2019)

Red is for Reconstruction

Master thesis | Media Studies (MA)

This thesis reveals a reflection on trauma in a personal photographic project and focuses on the relationship between photography and memory, and photography and trauma. It aims to answer the question how a visual project created in the format of a reconstructed family photo album can provide insights into issues addressed in theoretical debates on those relationships.

trauma

photography

late photography

aftermath

phototherapy

family album

vernacular photography

Author

Alexandra, Iakovleva

Note

Used literature: "Notes on the Phantom: A Complement to Freud's Metapsychology" (1987) by Nicolas Abraham and Nicholas Rand, "The Photography of Trauma" (2002) by Ulrich Bayer, "Photographs as Objects of Memory" (2009) by Elizabeth Edwards, "Generation of Postmemory" (2008) by Marianne Hirsch and "Between Memory and History: Les Lieux de Mémoire" (1989) by Nora Pierre.

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Specialisation

Film and Photographic Studies

Supervisors

Westgeest, Helen

ECTS Credits

20

Language

en