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OverviewIn History and Modern Media, John Mraz largely focuses on Mexican photography and his innovative methodology that examines historical photographs by employing the concepts of genre and functions. He developed this method in extensive work on photojournalism; it is here tested through examining two genres: Indianist imagery as an expression of imperial, neo-colonializing and decolonizing photography, and progressive photography as embodied in worker and laborist imagery, as well as feminist and decolonizing visuality. The book interweaves an autobiographical narrative with concrete research. Mraz describes the resistance he encountered in U.S. academia to this new way of showing and describing the past, as well as some illuminating experiences as a visiting professor at several U.S. universities. More importantly, he reflects on what it has meant to move to Mexico and become a Mexican. Mexico is home to a thriving school of photohistorians perhaps unequaled in the world. Some were trained in Art History, and a few continue to pursue that discipline. However, the great majority work from the discipline we have here defined as 'photohistory,' which focuses on vernacular photographs, those made outside of artistic intentions, and which constitute some 98% of all photographic images. A central premise of the book is that knowing past and other cultures is crucial in societies dominated by short-term and parochial thinking, and that today's hyper-audiovisuality requires historians to use modern media to offer their knowledge as alternatives to the 'perpetual present' in which we live. Full Product DetailsAuthor: John MrazPublisher: Vanderbilt University Press Imprint: Vanderbilt University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 22.80cm Weight: 0.333kg ISBN: 9780826501448ISBN 10: 0826501443 Pages: 172 Publication Date: 30 April 2021 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION: Reminiscences on the Voyage from a Visual Periphery Towards a Disciplinary Center CINEHISTORIES Doing History with Light and Sound: From Compilation Films to Interview-Based Documentaries PHOTOHISTORIES Seeing Photographs Historically: A Mexican View Historical Photographs: Genres, Functions, Methods, and Power Indianist Imagery: Imperial, Neocolonializing, and Decolonizing Photography Photography from the Left: Worker, Laborist, Feminist, and Decolonizing Imagery EPILOGUE: 'What a Long Strange Trip It's Been' BIBLIOGRAPHYReviews"Daring, thought-provoking and extremely readable. . . . A major contribution in itself, but also of special interest in relation to the importance of Mraz's work to all scholars of Mexican history and visual culture."" - John Lear, author of Picturing the Proletariat: Artists and Labor in Revolutionary Mexico, 1908-1940 (2017) ""Very few intellectuals have the genius to work beyond their training and create something new. John Mraz is one of them."" - James Krippner, author of Rereading the Conquest: Power, Politics and the History of Early Colonial MichoacÁn, Mexico, 1521-1565 (2001) and Paul Strand in Mexico, 1932-34 (2010)" Daring, thought-provoking and extremely readable. . . . A major contribution in itself, but also of special interest in relation to the importance of Mraz's work to all scholars of Mexican history and visual culture. - John Lear, author of Picturing the Proletariat: Artists and Labor in Revolutionary Mexico, 1908-1940 (2017) Very few intellectuals have the genius to work beyond their training and create something new. John Mraz is one of them. - James Krippner, author of Rereading the Conquest: Power, Politics and the History of Early Colonial MichoacAn, Mexico, 1521-1565 (2001) and Paul Strand in Mexico, 1932-34 (2010) Author InformationJohn Mraz is a research professor at the Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, Universidad AutÓnoma de Puebla, Mexico. He is the author of many books and is acknowledged as a pioneer in the representation of history in modern media. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |