scholarly journals Photographs On A Refrigerator : A Display Of Visual Culture

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna M. Jedrzejowski
Keyword(s):  
Visual Culture ◽  
North American ◽  
Cultural Object ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Family Photographs ◽  
Vernacular Photography ◽  
Family Generation ◽  
Family Based ◽  
Collection Practices

This project will focus on family based vernacular photography and modes of display, with specific attention paid to the household refrigerator as a framing device. Photographs on refrigerators are in many North American homes. Since the invention of photography, the home has and continues to be an area of display for vernacular family photographs. These displays of family photographs are important to consider because they are an example of how people use photographs in their everyday lives, and provide a representation of a family, generation and culture. This investigation will show that people display similar photographs for similar reasons, and that photographs are a common form of record making and celebration for families. Finally, this project will address vernacular photographs within the context of institutional collections. What collecting biases do vernacular photographs confront, and how does the commonality of vernacular photographs raise new questions about institutional collection practices based on the rarified and the valuable cultural object?

scholarly journals Photographs On A Refrigerator : A Display Of Visual Culture

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna M. Jedrzejowski
Keyword(s):  
Visual Culture ◽  
North American ◽  
Cultural Object ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Family Photographs ◽  
Vernacular Photography ◽  
Family Generation ◽  
Family Based ◽  
Collection Practices

This project will focus on family based vernacular photography and modes of display, with specific attention paid to the household refrigerator as a framing device. Photographs on refrigerators are in many North American homes. Since the invention of photography, the home has and continues to be an area of display for vernacular family photographs. These displays of family photographs are important to consider because they are an example of how people use photographs in their everyday lives, and provide a representation of a family, generation and culture. This investigation will show that people display similar photographs for similar reasons, and that photographs are a common form of record making and celebration for families. Finally, this project will address vernacular photographs within the context of institutional collections. What collecting biases do vernacular photographs confront, and how does the commonality of vernacular photographs raise new questions about institutional collection practices based on the rarified and the valuable cultural object?

The North American Shelter Business, 1860–1920: A Study of a Canadian Real Estate and Property Management Agency

1984 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 234-262 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Doucet ◽  
John Weaver
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
North American ◽  
Property Management ◽  
Single Family ◽  
Management Agency ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
The North ◽  
The Everyday

In this article, Professors Doucet and Weaver examine the North American shelter business between 1860 and 1920. Drawing upon the business records of the Hamilton, Ontario, real estate firm of Moore and Davis, they analyze the construction, ownership, and management of the North American shelter staple—the single-family detached dwelling. Since these activities had significant effects on the everyday lives of urban dwellers, they reveal significant social as well as business patterns. Doucet and Weaver conclude that this firm, and by implication the industry as a whole, preferred the prudent and routine to the innovative and daring, suggesting, in contrast to the work of recent scholars, that continuity rather than change typified urban development during these decades.

Bridging the Gap

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 200-221 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Nicoll
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Video Game ◽  
North American ◽  
Domestic Environment ◽  
Home Video ◽  
The Public ◽  
Cultural Object ◽  
Gaming Culture ◽  
Cultural Tensions

This article recovers the popular imaginaries surrounding an obsolete video game platform, the Neo Geo Advanced Entertainment System (AES), through a thematic discourse analysis of British and North American gaming magazines from the 1990s. Released in Japan in 1990, the Neo Geo AES was marketed as a home video game system capable of bridging the gap between the public space of the gaming arcade and the domestic environment of the home. “Imaginaries” in this context refer to the dreams and fantasies that accompanied the Neo Geo AES’s negotiation of arcade and home spaces as well as the discourses, images, ideas, and beliefs that helped mold its identity as a cultural object. Gaming magazines, I argue, help articulate how the system’s failure was tied to its unsuccessful navigation of cultural tensions during a period when gaming culture underwent a rapid relocation from the arcade to the home.

scholarly journals Linkage analysis of HLA and candidate genes for celiac disease in a North American family-based study

2001 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan L Neuhausen ◽  
Michael Feolo ◽  
James Farnham ◽  
Linda Book ◽  
John J Zone
Keyword(s):  
Celiac Disease ◽  
Linkage Analysis ◽  
Candidate Genes ◽  
North American ◽  
American Family ◽  
Family Based

scholarly journals “Say Cheese”: Family Photos, Modern Malay Masculinity and Family Narrative in Some Malaysian Films

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 282-293
Author(s):  
Jamaluddin Aziz ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Visual Culture ◽  
Happy Ending ◽  
Family Narratives ◽  
Family Photographs ◽  
Family Narrative ◽  
Close Textual Analysis ◽  
The Family ◽  
Family Home ◽  
Set Up

Family photographs are often used as a prop in a set-up of a family home in a film. Employing visual culture approach, I would argue that through the use of family portraits both in figurative and artefactual forms, the narrative about family is often unravelled, challenged and subsequently validated. A close textual analysis of three P. Ramlee’s films that mark the dawn of modernism in the immediate post-independence Malaya and the formation of Malaysia in 1963 as a case study, this paper asks the following questions: What types of narratives are created through the display of family portraits? How do these family portraits reflect the changing conceptions of the institution of the family especially pertaining to modern Malay masculinity? And, how do family photographs inform family narratives? The analysis finds that, on one hand, family portraits are used to narrate the exteriorization of masculinity in trouble by revealing its castration anxiety. On the other, they also point to “the hero journey archetype” that apotheosizes masculine dominance as proven by the films’ happy ending. The implication of this study lies in the way family photographs in films can be understood not merely as props, but in visual culture sense, as locating the source of the conflict of modern Malay masculinity in the family itself. Although family portraits in these films are meant to be innocuous to Malay masculinity in crisis, it is ideologically a folie de grandeur about the family and what it means for the nation in transition. Keywords: Family narratives, family photographs, malaysian films, visual culture, masculinity.

scholarly journals Um projeto de Educação para o Património — Vestígios: Fotografia&Memória

CEM ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 27-46
Author(s):  
Marisa Pereira Santos
Keyword(s):  
Visual Culture ◽  
Educational Materials ◽  
Teaching Materials ◽  
Raising Awareness ◽  
Vernacular Photography

Vernacular photography freezes the memory of an event or person and is an important document for understanding visual culture. However, we do not all understand its historical and heritage importance. Vestígios: Fotografia&Memória emerges as a project that focuses on raising awareness of the appreciation and protection of this document. It is a project aimed at children between 4 and 11 years old, which through educational materials and programs of unprecedented activities, reflect on photography as a heritage asset and activating element of memory and identity. In this article, we present the programs implemented in Mundo Património (SPIRA), the teaching materials — music and guides — and the results obtained

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