Photography and Migration
Special Issue of the International Journal for History, Culture and Modernity
The most recent edition of the Journal for History, Culture and Modernity is centered around 'Photography and Migration'. Prof. Eva-Maria Troelenberg (History and Art History) co-edited the issue along with Costanza Caraffa and Anna Sophia Messner.
Photography and Migration
This special issue presents a selection of contributions which take their cue from the interdisciplinary conference 'Encounters: Handling, Placing and Looking at Photographs in Relation to Migration' that took place at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz in 2017. They provide a perspective on the work done by photographs in historical and contemporary processes and movements of migration.
The essays
The essays investigate the multi-layered historical, material, technical and visual preconditions and effects of the 'migration and photography complex' in diachronic perspective, presenting studies ranging from the nineteenth century to the present. They are focused not primarily on the representation and documentation of migration in photographic images, but on photographic practices in migration contexts. Furthermore, handling photographs in relation to migration emphasizes the many layers of encounters across time and space that are embodied in the photographs themselves.
- Title: Photography and Migration
- Editors: Eva-Maria Troelenberg, Costanza Caraffa and Anna Sophia Messner
- Publisher: Brill
- ISSN: 2666-6529