Mette Sandbye Københavns Universitet Institut for Kunst- og Kulturvidenskab LFF, juni 2009: Familiefotografiet mellem det personlige og det kollektive

Mette Sandbye

Københavns Universitet

Institut for Kunst- og Kulturvidenskab

LFF, juni 2009:

Familiefotografiet

mellem det personlige

og det kollektive

Hvorfor dette emne? Hvad har mit eget fag skrevet om det? Ex. på materiale Hvad er de fagligt-metodologiske udfordringer ?

Hvorfor dette emne?

Hvad har mit eget fag skrevet om det?

Ex. på materiale

Hvad er de fagligt-metodologiske udfordringer ?

1. Hvorfor? Generel interesse i amatørfotografi Kunstnere i 60-70erne Nutidige kunstnere Medier og institutioner Samlere

Kunstnere i 60-70erne

Nutidige kunstnere

Medier og institutioner

Samlere

Mindesmærker. Tid og erindring i fotografiet (2001) Kedelige billeder. Fotografiets snapshotæstetik, 2007 Dansk Fotografihistorie (red.), 2004

Mindesmærker. Tid og erindring i fotografiet (2001)

Kedelige billeder. Fotografiets snapshotæstetik, 2007

Dansk Fotografihistorie (red.), 2004

Christian Boltanski: Sans-Souci , 1991

Lene Adler Petersen, Bjørn Nørgaard: Dette er ingen drøm , 1981

Jytte Rex: ”Fra en restaurationspiges dagbog” i Jeg har ikke lukket et øje – en billedroman , 1978

2. Hvad er der skrevet? James Elkins (ed.): Photography Theory , 2007. Fotohistorierne: Newhall, Frizot, Warner Marien ( Photography. A Cultural History ) Bourdieu, Pierre (m. L. Boltanski, R. Castel, J.C. Chamboredon): Un art moyen . Essai sur les usages sociaux de la photographie . Éd. de Minuit, Paris 1965. Photography. A Middle-brow Art.

James Elkins (ed.): Photography Theory , 2007.

Fotohistorierne: Newhall, Frizot, Warner Marien ( Photography. A Cultural History )

Bourdieu, Pierre (m. L. Boltanski, R. Castel, J.C. Chamboredon): Un art moyen . Essai sur les usages sociaux de la photographie . Éd. de Minuit, Paris 1965. Photography. A Middle-brow Art.

Patricia Holland: “’Sweet it is to scan…’: personal photographs and popular photography”. In Liz Wells (ed): Photography. A critical introduction . 2000: ” While family pictures, on the surface, act as social documents, a closer examination reveals the complex of interrelations and scandals that weave through the soap opera of personal life”. They can reveal: ”the trauma of an ordinary childhood. Revelations about child abuse and family discord indicate that worse horrors may underlie the aspirational surface of the innocent family snapshot. Family secrecy can give way to family horror story”.

Patricia Holland: “’Sweet it is to scan…’: personal photographs and popular photography”. In Liz Wells (ed): Photography. A critical introduction . 2000:

” While family pictures, on the surface, act as social documents, a closer examination reveals the complex of interrelations and scandals that weave through the soap opera of personal life”.

They can reveal: ”the trauma of an ordinary childhood. Revelations about child abuse and family discord indicate that worse horrors may underlie the aspirational surface of the innocent family snapshot. Family secrecy can give way to family horror story”.

Thomas Walther: Other Pictures. Anonymous photographs from the Thomas Walther Collection. Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, 2000. Snapshots: The Photography of Everyday Life, 1888 to the present , San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1998.

Thomas Walther: Other Pictures. Anonymous photographs from the Thomas Walther Collection. Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, 2000.

Snapshots: The Photography of Everyday Life, 1888 to the present , San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1998.

Walther: “ They document a profound innocence, tremendous pride and a unique sense of humor in American society. There is no faking, no strain, no theory here, only the simplicity and directness of capturing moments of life….”

Walther:

“ They document a profound innocence, tremendous pride and a unique sense of humor in American society. There is no faking, no strain, no theory here, only the simplicity and directness of capturing moments of life….”

Found Photo Galleries http://squareamerica.com / great found photos http://www.tbl.squareamerica.com/ http://www.renewal.org.au/object / more great found photos http://www.kodakgirl.com an incredible collection of snaps portraying women holding cameras “a family of objects without their rightful owners...” http://www.pjchmiel.com/feat/126party/ photos found in a thrift store camera http://www.foundphotograph.com / a found photo blog http://www.heudnsk.com/abandoned /abandoned_photo_museum_001.htm “all found on the sidewalk, mostly in Philadelphia” http://theimaginaryworld.com/page4.html kid and food related ephemera from the 1940s through the 1970s (includes galleries of snapshots and other vernacular photos) http://phototaken.my-expressions.com/slides.html found slides http://www.people.virginia.edu/~ds8s/ a found photo gallery, part of larger still photography website called Fixing Shadows http://swapatorium.blogspot.com / flea market finds (see also snapatorium – a snapshot sales site) http://www.bighappyfunhouse.com / a vintage snapshot blog http://oldhaunts.blogspot.com / Halloween-related ephemera and vintage snaps http://santaandme.blogspot.com / Santa-related ephemera and vintage snaps http://ookpiksnegz.blogspot.com / a vernacular photography blog http://www.sappho.com / lesbian-themed ephemera and vintage photos http://www.accidentalmysteries.com/home.html a stunning collection of vernacular photography http://juniorbonner.blogspot.com/2005/07/ http:// www.flickr.com/photos/leastwanted/sets / vintage mug shots http://www.houseplantpicturestudio.com/HPS / liquorwebfotos/liquor.html photos of an unknown family who probably owned a liquor store http://www.squidoo.com/vernacularphoto/#module1296405 a website about vernacular photography — includes galleries of vernacular photos from Nova Scotia, and found photos that originally belonged to a man from Brooklyn join our mailing list view trailer buy film schedule screening buy poster contact finteractive sites snapshot sales sites archives and resources if you like Other People's Pictures ebay dealers books of vernacular photos ound photo galleries

Found Photo Galleries

http://squareamerica.com / great found photos

http://www.tbl.squareamerica.com/ http://www.renewal.org.au/object / more great found photos

http://www.kodakgirl.com an incredible collection of snaps portraying women holding cameras

“a family of objects without their rightful owners...”

http://www.pjchmiel.com/feat/126party/ photos found in a thrift store camera

http://www.foundphotograph.com / a found photo blog

http://www.heudnsk.com/abandoned /abandoned_photo_museum_001.htm “all found on the sidewalk, mostly in Philadelphia”

http://theimaginaryworld.com/page4.html kid and food related ephemera from the 1940s through the 1970s (includes galleries of snapshots and other vernacular photos)

http://phototaken.my-expressions.com/slides.html found slides

http://www.people.virginia.edu/~ds8s/ a found photo gallery, part of larger still photography website called Fixing Shadows

http://swapatorium.blogspot.com / flea market finds (see also snapatorium – a snapshot sales site)

http://www.bighappyfunhouse.com / a vintage snapshot blog

http://oldhaunts.blogspot.com / Halloween-related ephemera and vintage snaps

http://santaandme.blogspot.com / Santa-related ephemera and vintage snaps

http://ookpiksnegz.blogspot.com / a vernacular photography blog

http://www.sappho.com / lesbian-themed ephemera and vintage photos

http://www.accidentalmysteries.com/home.html a stunning collection of vernacular photography

http://juniorbonner.blogspot.com/2005/07/ http:// www.flickr.com/photos/leastwanted/sets / vintage mug shots

http://www.houseplantpicturestudio.com/HPS / liquorwebfotos/liquor.html photos of an unknown family who probably owned a liquor store

http://www.squidoo.com/vernacularphoto/#module1296405 a website about vernacular photography — includes galleries of vernacular photos from Nova Scotia, and found photos that originally belonged to a man from Brooklyn join our mailing list view trailer buy film schedule screening buy poster contact

finteractive sites snapshot sales sites archives and resources if you like Other People's Pictures ebay dealers books of vernacular photos ound photo galleries

3. Materialeeksempler: to albums fra Chicago Oli Watt, f. 1968 Benjamin Wham, f. 1964 (slides med eksempler fra album udtaget pga. copyright)

Oli Watt, f. 1968

Benjamin Wham, f. 1964

(slides med eksempler fra album udtaget pga. copyright)

4. Metodologiske udfordringer? % hvad er fotografi + hvad vi gør med fotografi Foto som relationalt og performativt Hvad og hvordan kommunikerer de?

% hvad er fotografi

+ hvad vi gør med fotografi

Foto som relationalt og performativt

Hvad og hvordan kommunikerer de?

reception og cirkulation Fotografi som kulturel erfaring mellem det personlige og det almene Fotografier som aktive kilder

reception og cirkulation

Fotografi som kulturel erfaring mellem det personlige og det almene

Fotografier som aktive kilder

Chris Pinney/Nicolas Peterson (red.): Photography’s Other Histories (2003) + Pinney: Camera Indica (1997 ) Elizabeth Edwards & Janice Hart (red.): Photographs. Objects. Histories. On the Materiality of Images (2004)

Chris Pinney/Nicolas Peterson (red.): Photography’s Other Histories (2003) + Pinney: Camera Indica (1997 )

Elizabeth Edwards & Janice Hart (red.): Photographs. Objects. Histories. On the Materiality of Images (2004)

Hvordan studerer vi ’sammehed’? Det typiske ex. vs. den brede empiri Feltarbejde – interviews med albumejere og –skabere Hvor finder jeg albums fra 1950-1980?

Hvordan studerer vi ’sammehed’?

Det typiske ex. vs. den brede empiri

Feltarbejde – interviews med albumejere og –skabere

Hvor finder jeg albums fra 1950-1980?

Familiealbum 60/70erne Digitale albums e. 2000

Familiealbum 60/70erne

Digitale albums e. 2000

Familie album repetitive, kedelige, tavse og personlige, ladet med følelser, affekt, livhistorie Afspejler sociale ritualer og konventioner og en personlig, performativ dannelsesproces instrumentel og dybt sentimental praksis

repetitive, kedelige, tavse og personlige, ladet med følelser, affekt, livhistorie

Afspejler sociale ritualer og konventioner og en personlig, performativ dannelsesproces

instrumentel og dybt sentimental praksis

Max Kestner (1969): Rejsen på ophavet, 2004 "Da jeg var lille var der altid sne om vinteren og sol om sommeren. Det kan man se på vores familiefotos".

"Da jeg var lille var der altid sne om vinteren og sol om sommeren. Det kan man se på vores familiefotos".