Imaging Identity

Imaging Identity

Media, memory and portraiture in the digital age

Edited by: Melinda Hinkson

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Imaging Identity presents potent reflections on the human condition through the prism of portraiture. Taking digital imaging technologies and the dynamic and precarious dimensions of contemporary identity as critical reference points, these essays consider why portraits  continue to have such galvanising appeal and perform fundamental work across so many social settings. This multidisciplinary enquiry brings together artists, art historians, art theorists and anthropologists working with a variety of media. Authors look beyond conventional ideas of the portrait to the wider cultural contexts, governmental practices and intimate experiences that shape relationships between persons and pictures. Their shared purpose centres on a commitment to understanding the power of images to draw people into their worlds. Imaging Identity tracks a fundamental symbiosis — to grapple with the workings of images is to understand something vital of what it is to be human.

Details

ISBN (print):
9781760460402
ISBN (online):
9781760460419
Publication date:
Aug 2016
Imprint:
ANU Press
DOI:
http://doi.org/10.22459/II.08.2016
Disciplines:
Arts & Humanities: Art & Music; Social Sciences: Anthropology
Countries:
World

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Part I: The work of the imagination

  1. Rembrandt, or the portrait as encounter (PDF, 0.5MB) – Didier Maleuvre doi
  2. Pictures for our time and place: Reflections on painting in a digital age (PDF, 1.8MB) – Melinda Hinkson doi
  3. Diasporic looking: Portraiture, diaspora and subjectivity (PDF, 1.9MB) – Gali Weiss doi

Part II: Interfaces

  1. The self-portrait and the film and video essay (PDF, 0.5MB) – John Conomos doi
  2. The mutable face (PDF, 1.1MB) – Michele Barker and Anna Munster doi
  3. BarkTV: Portrait of an innovator (PDF, 3.1MB) – Jennifer Deger doi

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