Family Frames: Photography, Narrative, and Postmemory

By Marianne Hirsch

Book Overview

Family photographs, snapshots and portraits, affixed to the refrigerator or displayed in gilded frames, crammed into shoeboxes or catalogued in albums, they preserve ancestral history and perpetuate memories. Indeed, photography has become the family's primary means of self-representation. In this book Marianne Hirsch uncovers both the deception and the power behind this visual record.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674292669
• ISBN13: 9780674292666
• Release Date: November 1997
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 0.8" x 6.5"