In Visible Presence

Name: In Visible Presence
Brand: The MIT Press
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ISBN: 9780262048279

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03 Oct, 2023

By Oksana Sarkisova(Author), Olga Shevchenko(Author)

An absorbing exploration of Soviet-era family photographs that demonstrates the singular power of the photographic image to command attention, resist closu...

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ISBN-10:

0262048272

ISBN-13:

9780262048279

Publisher

The MIT Press

No.of Pages

488

Dimensions

9.31 X 7.25 X 1.13 inches

Description

An absorbing exploration of Soviet-era family photographs that demonstrates the singular power of the photographic image to command attention, resist closure, and complicate the meaning of the past.

A faded image of a family gathered at a festively served dinner table, raising their glasses in unison. A group of small children, sitting in orderly rows, with stuffed toys at their feet and a portrait of Lenin looming over their heads. A pensive older woman against a snowy landscape, her gaze directed lovingly at a tombstone. These are a few of the evocative images in In Visible Presence by Oksana Sarkisova and Olga Shevchenko, an exquisitely researched book that brings together photographs from Soviet-era family photo archives and investigates their afterlives in Russia.

In Visible Presence explores the photographic images’ singular power to capture a fleeting moment by approaching them as points of contestation and possibility. Drawing on over a decade of fieldwork and interviews, as well as internet ethnography, media analysis, and case studies, In Visible Presence offers a rich account of the role of family photography in creating communities of affect, enabling nostalgic longings, and processing memories of suffering, violence, and hardship. Together these photos evoke youthful aspirations, dashed hopes, and moral compromises, as well as the long legacy of silence that was passed down from grandparents to parents to children.

With more than 250 black and white photos, In Visible Presence is an astonishing journey into domestic photography, family memory, and the ongoing debate over the meaning of the Soviet past that is as timely and powerful today as it has ever been.

Product Details

ISBN-10

: 0262048272

ISBN-13

: 9780262048279

Publisher

: The MIT Press

Publication date

: 03 Oct, 2023

About the Author

Oksana Sarkisova is Research Fellow at the Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives and cofounder of the Visual Studies Platform at Central European University. She is the author of Screening Soviet Nationalities and coeditor of Past for the Eyes.

Olga Shevchenko is Paul H. Hunn ’55 Professor in Social Studies at the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at Williams College. She is the author of Crisis and the Everyday in Postsocialist Moscow and the editor of Double Exposure: Memory and Photography.