Heritage, Photography, and the Affective Past

Heritage, Photography, and the Affective Past explores the production, consumption, and interpretation of photography across heritage domains, shedding light on its role in shaping experiences and conceptualizations of heritage. It problematizes and redirects the varied usages of photography within current practice, providing fresh insight into the making and remaking of the past in the present.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 256 pages
Publication date: 01 April 2021
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Heritage, Photography, and the Affective Past is a groundbreaking exploration of the production, consumption, and interpretation of photography across diverse heritage domains, from global image archives to the intimate realm of the family album. Through original ethnographic and archival research, the book sheds new light on the profound role that photography has played in the emergence, expansion, and articulation of heritage in diverse sociocultural contexts.

Drawing on extensive experience spanning the heritage sector and two international case studies—Angkor in Cambodia and the town of Famagusta, Cyprus—the book makes a substantial contribution to our understanding of the role that photography has played and continues to play in shaping experiences and conceptualizations of heritage.

One of the central objectives of the book is to problematize and potentially redirect the diverse usages of photography within current practice, usages that remain woefully undertheorized, despite their often-central role in shaping heritage. Ultimately, by focusing attention on a hitherto underexamined aspect of the heritage phenomenon, namely its manifold interconnections with photography, this book provides fresh insight into the making and remaking of the past in the present, and the alternative heritages that might emerge around emergent photographic forms and approaches.

Heritage, Photography, and the Affective Past employs photography as both a method of enquiry and a tool of documentation. It will appeal to scholars and students of heritage, photography, anthropology, museology, public archaeology, and tourism. Moreover, the book will be an invaluable resource for heritage practitioners working across the globe.

Weight: 494g
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367777586