The Moral Economy of Suffering: Citizen Photography as Political Dissent
By positioning themselves as moral actors, these citizen photographers challenge existing power relations.
Tag: Photography
Gone with the Wind: Tracing Agricultural Migrant Labor
Lange’s photographs can be considered “care work,” the devalued labor, integral to maintaining human life. By identifying the distress of migrant laborers’ lives, Lange indicated where care had lapsed.
From Steamship to Phonograph: Frederick Douglass, David Blight, and the Politics of Memory
We may not have to listen to Frederick Douglass, but isn’t it extraordinary that we can choose to do so?
