Exposed Memories: Family Pictures in Private and Collective Memory

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Contents Introduction PHOTO AS AUTOBIOGRAPHY Incongruous Images: “Before, During, and After” the Holocaust Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer Beguiled by Loss: The Burden of Third-Generation Narrative Nancy K. Miller The Baghdadi Jew and His Chinese Mistress Jay Prosser PHOTO AND TEXT History, Narration, and the Frozen Moment of Photography in Richard Powers’ Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictée Heinz Ickstadt Memory and/or Construction: Family Images in W.G. Sebald’s Austerlitz Zsófia Bán PRIVATE AND PUBLIC ARCHIVES Virtual Communities of Intimacy: Photography and Immigration Rob Kroes Buried Images: Photography in the Cult of Memory of the 1956 Revolution Géza Boros A Farewell to Private Photography András Bán VII 3 29 43 55 67 77 89 113 EVENTfulness: Family Archives as Events/Folds/Veils Suzana Milevska FAMILY ALBUM Visualizing Male Homosexuality in the Family Album Logan Sisley Please Recycle! On Ágnes Eperjesi’s Family Album Ágnes Berecz OBJECT/PHOTO/REALITY From Photo to Object: Personal Documents as History-Writing in the Works of Christian Boltanski and Ilya Kabakov Éva Forgács Home Museum: An Installation by Katarina Šević and Gergely László Hedvig Turai CONTRIBUTORS 125 139 153 169 177 189 ...