Melissa Miles - Photography and Its Publics

Photography and Its Publics

Photography and Its Publics

Edited by
Melissa Miles and Edward Welch

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Rebecca A. Adelman is Associate Professor of Media and Communication Studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Her research focuses on the intersections of visual culture and militarized violence, with a particular interest in ethics, affect and imagination. She is the author of Beyond the Checkpoint: Visual Practices in Americas Global War on Terror (University of Massachusetts Press, 2014) and Figuring Violence: Affective Investments in Perpetual War (Fordham University Press, 2019).

Tom Allbeson is Lecturer in Cultural History at Cardiff University. He is a member of the Tom Hopkinson Centre for Media History and a co-editor of the Journal of War and Culture Studies. Tom has published articles on photographic history in the Journal of Modern History and Modern Intellectual History. He has two forthcoming books: one with Bloomsbury on photography, post-war reconstruction and the European city (c. 194461), and another on histories of war photojournalism co-authored with Stuart Allan for Routledge.

Paul Frosh is Professor in the Department of Communication and Journalism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research spans visual culture, media aesthetics, consumer culture, media witnessing and cultural memory. His books include The Poetics of Digital Media (2018), Media Witnessing: Testimony in the Age of Mass Communication (2011, edited with Amit Pinchevski), Meeting the Enemy in the Living Room: Terrorism and Communication in the Contemporary Era (2006, edited with Tamar Liebes) and The Image Factory: Consumer Culture, Photography and the Visual Content Industry (2003).

Robert Hariman is Professor of rhetoric and public culture in the Department of Communication Studies at Northwestern University. He is the author of Political Style: The Artistry of Power and of two co-authored books on photojournalism: No Caption Needed: Iconic Photographs, Public Culture, and Liberal Democracy, and most recently, The Public Image: Photography and Civic Spectatorship. His other publications include edited volumes on popular trials, political judgement, political realism and the texture of political action, as well as journal articles on parody, allegory, banality and other modes of public address.

John Louis Lucaites is Provost Professor of Rhetoric Emeritus in the Department of English at Indiana University. He is the co-author of Crafting Equality: Americas Anglo-African Word (with Celeste Condit) and the co-author of No Caption Needed: Iconic Photographs, Public Culture, and Liberal Democracy and The Public Image: Photography and Civic Spectatorship (with Robert Hariman). He has co-edited volumes on the oratory of Martin Luther King, Jr., contemporary rhetorical theory and the materiality of rhetoric, as well as, most recently, In/Visible War: The Culture of War in Twenty-first-Century America.

ngeles Donoso Macaya is Associate Professor of Spanish at The Borough of Manhattan Community College The City University of New York (CUNY). Her research centres on Latin American photography theory and history, counter-archival production, human rights activism, documentary film and feminisms, with a focus on the Southern Cone. She is the author of The Insubordination of Photography: Documentary Practices under Chiles Dictatorship (University Press of Florida, 2020). Her articles about contemporary Latin American photography, visual arts, film and literature have appeared in the journals Vazantes, American Quarterly,Aisthesis, Chasqui, Revista Hispnica Moderna, LaFuga Revista de Cine, and in different edited volumes. She is a regular contributor of ATLAS Imaginarios Visuales.

Melissa Miles is Professor of Art History and Theory at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. Her research centres on the history and theory of photography, with particular focus on its connections to politics and intercultural relations. She is the author of Photography, Truth and Reconciliation (Bloomsbury, 2019), Pacific Exposures: Photography and the Australia-Japan Relationship (with Robin Gerster, ANU Press, 2018), The Language of Light and Dark: Light and Place in Australian Photography (McGill Queens University Press, 2015), and co-editor of The Culture of Photography in Public Space (with Anne Marsh and Daniel Palmer, Intellect, University of Chicago Press, 2015).

Thy Phu is a Professor at Western University in Canada. Her research focuses on the intersections of visual studies, photography studies and transpacific critique. She is the author of Picturing Model Citizens: Civility in Asian American Visual Culture and co-editor of Feeling Photography. She is working on several projects: a monograph on the war in Vietnam from the perspective of Vietnamese photographers; a co-edited volume on the visual mediation of the global Cold War; and The Family Camera Network, a research collaboration that collects and preserves family photographs and their stories, for which she serves as Principal Investigator.

Edward Welch is the Carnegie Professor of French at the University of Aberdeen. His research focuses on the cultural history of post-war France as it lives through the twin dramas of modernization and decolonization, and how literary and visual culture articulates, echoes and represents those dramas. More broadly, he is interested in the role of the photographic image as part of a visual economy of meaning, and how it can be mobilized to shape knowledge and understanding. Publications include Contesting Views: The Visual Economy of France and Algeria, co-authored with Joseph McGonagle (Liverpool University Press, 2013), France in Flux: Space, Territory and Contemporary Culture, co-edited with Ari Blatt (Liverpool University Press, 2019), and Photography: Theoretical Snapshots, co-edited with Jonathan Long and Andrea Noble (Routledge, 2009).

Michele Zappavigna is Senior Lecturer in the School of Arts and Media at the University of New South Wales, Australia. Her major research interest is the discourse of social media and how ambient affiliation is enacted. Recent books include Searchable Talk: Hashtags and Social Media Metadiscourse (Bloomsbury, 2018), Discourse of Twitter and Social Media (Bloomsbury, 2012), Researching the Language of Social Media (with Ruth Page, Johann Unger and David Barton, Routledge, 2014) and Discourse and Diversionary Justice: An Analysis of Ceremonial Redress in Youth Justice Conferencing (with J.R. Martin, Palgrave, 2018).

Andrs Mario Zervign is Professor of the History of Photography at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Zervign leads The Developing Room, an academic working group at Rutgers that promotes interdisciplinary dialogue on photographys history, theory and practice. He is the author of John Heartfield and the Agitated Image: Photography, Persuasion, and the Rise of Avant-Garde Photomontage (University of Chicago Press, 2012) and Photography and Germany, for the Reaktion Books Exposures series (2017). He is co-editor of Photography and Its Origins (Routledge, 2014), Photography and Doubt (Routledge, 2017) and Subjective-Objective: A Century of Social Photography (Zimmerli Museum/Hirmer Verlag, 2017).

Sumin Zhao is Lecturer in Discourse Analysis at the University of Edinburgh. Her research looks at how digital and social media technologies shape textual production and social interaction, with a particular focus on young children and their families. Recent edited books include