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NEW IN PRINT — Imagining Everyday Life: Engagements with Vernacular Photography

Tina Campt (Editor), Marianne Hirsch (Editor), Gil Hochberg (Editor), Brian Wallis (Editor).



Photography — Culture and Theory.


Imagining Everyday Life: Engagements with Vernacular Photography surveys the expansive field of vernacular photography, the vast archive of utilitarian images created for bureaucratic structures, commercial usage and personal commemoration (as opposed to aesthetic purposes). As a crucial extension of its ongoing investigation of vernacular photography, the Walther Collection has collaborated with key scholars and critical thinkers in the history of photography, women’s studies, queer theory, Africana studies and curatorial practice to interrogate vernacular’s theoretical limits, as well as to conduct case studies of a striking array of objects and images, many from the collection’s holdings.


Softcover, 432 pages, 360 images — Steidl Books — April 2020 — € 45.00. Available at Stiedl Books.

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