Well, it is a great pleasure to welcome all of you to this day that we will spend in the company of Margaret Mead, Barnard Class of 1923. The College’s Department of Anthropology and Center for Research on Women have worked together to assemble an excellent group of panelists, including friends I haven’t seen for … Read more
I begin this collection with an homage to Marianne Hirsch, without whom these discussions would not be possible. In many ways Marianne’s fingerprints are all over this issue. Many of those involved in this project were introduced to each other through Marianne. Moreover, many of the contributors to this issue were fortunate enough to have spent … Read more
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T]he discourse of mimicry is constructed around an ambivalence; in order to be effective, mimicry must continually produce its slippage, its excess, its difference. –Homi Bhabha excess: n 1. the state of exceeding what is normal or sufficient. 2. An amount or quantity beyond what is normal or sufficient; a surplus. 3. The amount or degree … Read more
In 1952, my father borrowed his sister Ida’s movie camera to film our car trip from Des Moines to California. From that moment until the mid-1960s, my father recorded nearly every major and minor event in our family’s history. His home movies of my growing up gave me the chance to watch, reconstruct, and better … Read more
When I went to the Institut St. Joseph in the Auvergne region of France in 1996, I was haunted by the voices of my childhood – repeating Ave Marias summoning the ultimate protection from all things bad and evil. I had gone there following an elusive memory of my mother’s. Ballet lessons and Ave Marias. … Read more
Jewish LooksMichelle Citron©2001citron@northwestern.eduAprox 25 min About the Jewish Looks Website – This website is best viewed at 1024 x 768 resolution on your monitor. – In order to experience this website, you must have the Flash 5 plugin installed for your browser. – If you don’t have the Flash 5 plugin, click download toview Macromedia’s … Read more
This essay features a slide show. To view each slide, click on the numbered link accompanying the text as you read. Alternately, you may move between slides by using the “previous” and “next” buttons below each image. This essay may seem to begin oddly. To address Jewish themes in my artistic work, I put before … Read more
For two decades, Lorie Novak’s photographic work has been dedicated to exploring the genre of the family snapshot. Novak belongs to a recent tradition of photographers working in the medium of domestic photography. For her, as indeed for some of her contemporaries, family photography has functioned as a productive means of self-knowledge and of self-presentation … Read more
COLLECTED VISIONS (http://collectedvisions.net) is a participatory net art project that examines how family photographs shape our memories. I created the site with Clilly Castiglia, Betsey Kershaw and Kerry O’Neill in 1996. The most significant aspects of Collected Visions are the capability to search images in its growing archive of family photographs, the ability to create photo … Read more
