In Public / In Focus: Photography, Testimony and the Public Sphere

公开/聚焦：摄影、证词和公共领域

• 批准号: FT130100012
• 负责人: Prof Melissa Miles
• 金额: $ 43.39万
• 依托单位: Monash University
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: ARC Future Fellowships
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2014-02-03 至 2022-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/FT130100012
• 关键词: Public; Focus; Photography; Testimony; Sphere

Photography plays an important but little understood role in the public sphere. Photographs invite viewers to identify with stories, events and others, and the ease with which photographs circulate in print and online makes them ideal for fostering discourse and debate. However, the increasing focus on testimony and witness in contemporary culture has recently altered the way that photography operates in public and raised some significant problems for photography historians regarding the representation of events, others and the past. This project will respond to these problems, and produce a new understanding of the historical, social, cultural and political links between photography and the public sphere today.

摄影在公共领域扮演着重要但鲜为人知的角色。照片邀请观众认同故事，事件和其他人，照片在印刷品和网络上传播的便利使其成为促进话语和辩论的理想选择。然而，在当代文化中，对证词和见证的日益关注最近改变了摄影在公共场合的运作方式，并为摄影历史学家提出了一些关于事件，他人和过去的代表性的重要问题。该项目将回应这些问题，并对当今摄影与公共领域之间的历史，社会，文化和政治联系产生新的理解。