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CCD international seminars: Expanding the Kodak Zone: Vernacular Photography and Imperial Encounter in the Philippine-American War17 November 2023 - 17 November 202310:00 - 11:30 Zoom
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CCD international seminars: Expanding the Kodak Zone: Vernacular Photography and Imperial Encounter in the Philippine-American WarSilvan Neidermeier is senior lecturer at the University of Erfurt (Germany). In his talk he discusses the multifold uses of vernacular photography in the Philippine-American War (1899-1902). Based on private photographs created by white and Black U.S. soldiers as well as Philippine revolutionaries, it will show that vernacular photography provided a means for both reifying white imperial subject position and substantiating non-white and anti-imperial subject positions. Rather than acting as a unilateral “tool of empire” (Paul S. Landau), vernacular photography enabled historical actors to place themselves in and support narratives of white imperial conquest, Black military self-affirmation and Philippine anti-colonial nation building. A close reading of vernacular photographs of the Philippine-American War thus allows reconstructing both the hegemonic and counter-hegemonic function of photography in the age of imperialism. Arrangör: Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation
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