Indeterminacy Thoughts on Time, the Image, and Race(ism) DAVID CAMPANY and STANLEY WOLUKAU-WANAMBWA

DAVID CAMPANY and STANLEY WOLUKAU-WANAMBWA Indeterminacy

Name: DAVID CAMPANY and STANLEY WOLUKAU-WANAMBWA Indeterminacy
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SALLY STEIN Migrant Mother, Migrant Gender 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.

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DAVID CAMPANY and STANLEY WOLUKAU-WANAMBWA Indeterminacy: Thoughts on Time, the Image, and Race(ism)

DAVID CAMPANY and STANLEY WOLUKAU-WANAMBWA Indeterminacy: Thoughts on Time, the Image, and Race(ism). In a series of written exchanges, David Campany and Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa consider the options for photography in resisting the oppressive orthodoxies of racial capital, conservative history, and neoliberal visual culture.

How does the essential indeterminacy of photography square with the need to work out alternative practices? How is visibility achieved beyond the consensual categories of the mass media and the commodification of art? What models are there for the making and reception of photographic books and exhibitions that might cultivate an active spectatorship beyond boutique consumerism? These urgent questions and more are discussed in a spirit of speculation and possibility, in the light of signal events that have shaped the recent past.

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