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Product details:
- Publisher University of Chicago Press
- Date of Publication 25 March 2026
- Number of Volumes Hardback
- ISBN 9780826501455
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages338 pages
- Size 228x152 mm
- Weight 333 g
- Language English 700
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Short description:
Interweaves an autobiographical narrative with concrete research. John Mraz describes the resistance he encountered in US academia to this new way of showing and describing the past, as well as some illuminating experiences as a visiting professor at several US universities.
MoreLong description:
In History and Modern Media, John Mraz largely focuses on Mexican photography and his innovative methodology that examines historical photographs by employing the concepts of genre and functions. He developed this method in extensive work on photojournalism; it is here tested through examining two genres: Indianist imagery as an expression of imperial, neo-colonializing and decolonizing photography, and progressive photography as embodied in worker and laborist imagery, as well as feminist and decolonizing visuality.
The book interweaves an autobiographical narrative with concrete research. Mraz describes the resistance he encountered in U.S. academia to this new way of showing and describing the past, as well as some illuminating experiences as a visiting professor at several U.S. universities. More importantly, he reflects on what it has meant to move to Mexico and become a Mexican. Mexico is home to a thriving school of photohistorians perhaps unequaled in the world. Some were trained in Art History, and a few continue to pursue that discipline. However, the great majority work from the discipline we have here defined as &&&39;photohistory,&&&39; which focuses on vernacular photographs, those made outside of artistic intentions, and which constitute some 98&&&37; of all photographic images.
A central premise of the book is that knowing past and other cultures is crucial in societies dominated by short-term and parochial thinking, and that today&&&39;s hyper-audiovisuality requires historians to use modern media to offer their knowledge as alternatives to the &&&39;perpetual present&&&39; in which we live.
