Migrant Mother, Migrant Gender
by Sally Stein
Text: Sally Stein
Publisher: MACK Books
128 pages pages
Year: March 2020
ISBN: 978-1-912339-83-9
Comments: Silkscreen paperback, 12,5 x 19,5 cm
"I contend that in close comparison with Marian icons, the reason why this photograph continues to command attention is that it is not so simple or familiar a variant of the holy family imagery as it first appears."
Sally Stein reconsiders Dorothea Lange’s iconic portrait of maternity and modern emblem of family values in light of Lange’s long-overlooked ‘Padonna’ pictures and proposes that ‘Migrant Mother’ should in fact be seen as a disruptive image of women’s conflictual relation to home, and the world. Stein is an American academic and cultural theorist living in Los Angeles. The interrelated topics she most often engages concern the multiple effects of documentary imagery, the politics of gender, and the status and meaning of black and white and color imagery on our perceptions, beliefs, even actions as consumers and citizens.
Dr. Stein, Professor Emerita, UC Irvine, is an independent scholar based in Los Angeles who continues to research and write about 20thcentury photography in the U.S. and its relation to broader questions of culture and society. She has written about New Deal FSA photographers—particularly Dorothea Lange, Marion Post Wolcott, Jack Delano—as well as the contested image of FDR. Her numerous essays about popular mass media – Ladies Home Journal, Life and Look – extend her ongoing study of the various aspects of the rise of color photography. The interrelated topics she most often engages concern the multiple effects of documentary imagery, the politics of gender, and the status and meaning of black and white and color imagery on our perceptions, beliefs, even actions as consumers and citizens.
DISCOURSE is a new series of small books in which a cultural theorist, curator or artist explores a theme, an artwork or an idea in an extended illustrated text.
more books tagged »USA« | >> see all
-
A Period of Juvenile Prosperity (signed and numbered)
by Mike Brodie
Euro 450 -
House Hunting (slightly damaged - last copy)
by Todd Hido
sold out -
Units
by Seth Lower
Euro 38.50 -
An Old Forest Road
by Robert Adams
sold out -
Scrublands
by Antoine Bruy
sold out -
Terminus (signed)
by John Divola
Euro 44
more books tagged »theory« | >> see all
-
Die Logik der Bilder - Essays und Gespräche
by Wim Wenders
Euro 15.90 -
A Chronology of Photography
by Paul Lowe
sold out -
Chapter 2 - The Conflict of Images
by Raphaël Dallaporta, Giorgio Di Noto, Monica Haller
sold out -
Die Kunst der Schwarzweiss-Fotografie: LANDSCHAFTEN
by Terry Hope
sold out -
The Ongoing Moment - A Book About Photographs
by Geoff Dyer
sold out -
New York in Photobooks
by Horacio Fernández
sold out
more books tagged »essays« | >> see all
-
EIKON Heft 77
by Eikon
Euro 14 5.60 -
EIKON Heft 71
by Eikon
Euro 14 5.60 -
EIKON Heft 106
by Eikon
Euro 14 5.60 -
Friedl Kubelka: Atelier d'Expression (Dakar)
by Maren Lübbke-Tidow (Hg.)
Euro 9.90 -
EIKON Heft 57
by Eikon
Euro 14 5.60 -
EIKON Heft 100
by Eikon
Euro 14 5.60
Random selection from the Virtual bookshelf josefchladek.com
Migrant Mother, Migrant Gender
by Sally Stein
Text: Sally Stein
Publisher: MACK Books
128 pages pages
Year: March 2020
ISBN: 978-1-912339-83-9
Comments: Silkscreen paperback, 12,5 x 19,5 cm
"I contend that in close comparison with Marian icons, the reason why this photograph continues to command attention is that it is not so simple or familiar a variant of the holy family imagery as it first appears."
Sally Stein reconsiders Dorothea Lange’s iconic portrait of maternity and modern emblem of family values in light of Lange’s long-overlooked ‘Padonna’ pictures and proposes that ‘Migrant Mother’ should in fact be seen as a disruptive image of women’s conflictual relation to home, and the world. Stein is an American academic and cultural theorist living in Los Angeles. The interrelated topics she most often engages concern the multiple effects of documentary imagery, the politics of gender, and the status and meaning of black and white and color imagery on our perceptions, beliefs, even actions as consumers and citizens.
Dr. Stein, Professor Emerita, UC Irvine, is an independent scholar based in Los Angeles who continues to research and write about 20thcentury photography in the U.S. and its relation to broader questions of culture and society. She has written about New Deal FSA photographers—particularly Dorothea Lange, Marion Post Wolcott, Jack Delano—as well as the contested image of FDR. Her numerous essays about popular mass media – Ladies Home Journal, Life and Look – extend her ongoing study of the various aspects of the rise of color photography. The interrelated topics she most often engages concern the multiple effects of documentary imagery, the politics of gender, and the status and meaning of black and white and color imagery on our perceptions, beliefs, even actions as consumers and citizens.
DISCOURSE is a new series of small books in which a cultural theorist, curator or artist explores a theme, an artwork or an idea in an extended illustrated text.
more books tagged »USA« | >> see all
-
A Period of Juvenile Prosperity (signed and numbered)
by Mike Brodie
Euro 450 -
House Hunting (slightly damaged - last copy)
by Todd Hido
sold out -
Units
by Seth Lower
Euro 38.50 -
An Old Forest Road
by Robert Adams
sold out -
Scrublands
by Antoine Bruy
sold out -
Terminus (signed)
by John Divola
Euro 44
more books tagged »theory« | >> see all
-
Die Logik der Bilder - Essays und Gespräche
by Wim Wenders
Euro 15.90 -
A Chronology of Photography
by Paul Lowe
sold out -
Chapter 2 - The Conflict of Images
by Raphaël Dallaporta, Giorgio Di Noto, Monica Haller
sold out -
Die Kunst der Schwarzweiss-Fotografie: LANDSCHAFTEN
by Terry Hope
sold out -
The Ongoing Moment - A Book About Photographs
by Geoff Dyer
sold out -
New York in Photobooks
by Horacio Fernández
sold out
more books tagged »essays« | >> see all
-
EIKON Heft 77
by Eikon
Euro 14 5.60 -
EIKON Heft 71
by Eikon
Euro 14 5.60 -
EIKON Heft 106
by Eikon
Euro 14 5.60 -
Friedl Kubelka: Atelier d'Expression (Dakar)
by Maren Lübbke-Tidow (Hg.)
Euro 9.90 -
EIKON Heft 57
by Eikon
Euro 14 5.60 -
EIKON Heft 100
by Eikon
Euro 14 5.60
Random selection from the Virtual bookshelf josefchladek.com
;jpg?c=f09c595d95fe042449b556fbbf2b2c79)
;jpg?c=d0e7a3fbcae41255a13f6c9ec405b80c)
Migrant Mother, Migrant Gender
by Sally Stein
Text: Sally Stein
Publisher: MACK Books
128 pages pages
Year: March 2020
ISBN: 978-1-912339-83-9
Comments: Silkscreen paperback, 12,5 x 19,5 cm
"I contend that in close comparison with Marian icons, the reason why this photograph continues to command attention is that it is not so simple or familiar a variant of the holy family imagery as it first appears."
Sally Stein reconsiders Dorothea Lange’s iconic portrait of maternity and modern emblem of family values in light of Lange’s long-overlooked ‘Padonna’ pictures and proposes that ‘Migrant Mother’ should in fact be seen as a disruptive image of women’s conflictual relation to home, and the world. Stein is an American academic and cultural theorist living in Los Angeles. The interrelated topics she most often engages concern the multiple effects of documentary imagery, the politics of gender, and the status and meaning of black and white and color imagery on our perceptions, beliefs, even actions as consumers and citizens.
Dr. Stein, Professor Emerita, UC Irvine, is an independent scholar based in Los Angeles who continues to research and write about 20thcentury photography in the U.S. and its relation to broader questions of culture and society. She has written about New Deal FSA photographers—particularly Dorothea Lange, Marion Post Wolcott, Jack Delano—as well as the contested image of FDR. Her numerous essays about popular mass media – Ladies Home Journal, Life and Look – extend her ongoing study of the various aspects of the rise of color photography. The interrelated topics she most often engages concern the multiple effects of documentary imagery, the politics of gender, and the status and meaning of black and white and color imagery on our perceptions, beliefs, even actions as consumers and citizens.
DISCOURSE is a new series of small books in which a cultural theorist, curator or artist explores a theme, an artwork or an idea in an extended illustrated text.
more books tagged »USA« | >> see all
-
A Period of Juvenile Prosperity (signed and numbered)
by Mike Brodie
Euro 450 -
House Hunting (slightly damaged - last copy)
by Todd Hido
sold out -
Units
by Seth Lower
Euro 38.50 -
An Old Forest Road
by Robert Adams
sold out -
Scrublands
by Antoine Bruy
sold out -
Terminus (signed)
by John Divola
Euro 44
more books tagged »theory« | >> see all
-
Die Logik der Bilder - Essays und Gespräche
by Wim Wenders
Euro 15.90 -
A Chronology of Photography
by Paul Lowe
sold out -
Chapter 2 - The Conflict of Images
by Raphaël Dallaporta, Giorgio Di Noto, Monica Haller
sold out -
Die Kunst der Schwarzweiss-Fotografie: LANDSCHAFTEN
by Terry Hope
sold out -
The Ongoing Moment - A Book About Photographs
by Geoff Dyer
sold out -
New York in Photobooks
by Horacio Fernández
sold out
more books tagged »essays« | >> see all
-
EIKON Heft 77
by Eikon
Euro 14 5.60 -
EIKON Heft 71
by Eikon
Euro 14 5.60 -
EIKON Heft 106
by Eikon
Euro 14 5.60 -
Friedl Kubelka: Atelier d'Expression (Dakar)
by Maren Lübbke-Tidow (Hg.)
Euro 9.90 -
EIKON Heft 57
by Eikon
Euro 14 5.60 -
EIKON Heft 100
by Eikon
Euro 14 5.60
Random selection from the Virtual bookshelf josefchladek.com
;jpg?c=a8b4058f71c86b1b489d9c6b418c3d8d)