...George Steinmetz; Julia Hell © 2006 by Duke University Press 2006 P h o t o - e s s ay The Visual Archive of Colonialism: Germany and Namibia George Steinmetz and Julia Hell...

... were required to furnish a photograph of themselves dressed in swimwear. Taking its cue from this historic example, this study traces the evolution of a phenomenon the author describes as state-incriminating, coproduced archives, visual archives that are coproduced by representatives of the legal...

... Fortuyn, Theo Van Gogh, and the Politics of Tolerance in the Netherlands Peter van der Veer    111 On Degrees of Imperial Sovereignty Ann Laura Stoler    125 P H O T O - E S S A Y The Visual...

..., the “new normal,” and destabilizing discourses of rights; George Steinmetz and Julia Hell on Germany’s visual archive of colonialism; Thomas Blom Hansen on music, taxis, and racial imaginaion in urban South Africa; and more . . . Public Culture...

... Srivastava, among so many others from nonprofit organizations, who have generously opened written and visual archives in solidarity with this piece. Figure 1  Women trek two miles for water, 2002. Photograph by M. Madhuraj, imgs.sfgate.co. Image courtesy of the Mathrubhumi Daily...

... to be decided case by case. But the semiotic gap cannot be closed by the one and only correct representation. To argue that amounts to Holocaust modernism.14 Indeed, phenomena such as Schindler’s List and Spiel- berg’s visual archive of Holocaust survivor testimonies compel us to think trau- matic memory...

..., 1892, the first day of business. Caption to photograph of Annie Moore and her daughter 123 Public Culture As a new technology for archivization, the portrait photograph promised to provide a visual...

... on earlier versions of this essay. I am particularly grate- ful to Kamalika Mukherjee and Abhijit Bhattacharya of the CSSSC Archive for their invaluable help in putting together the illustrations. Public Culture 20:2  d o i 10.1215/08992363-2007-028 Copyright 2008 by Duke University Press...

...Erica Robles-Anderson Within the past half century a style of worship known as “megachurch” has radically transformed the religious landscape. Characterized by spectacular largesse, megachurches reimagine the material culture of Christianity by blending audio, visual, and communications...

... . Sekula Allan . 1986 . “ The Body and the Archive .” October 39 : 3 – 64 . Smith Shawn Michelle . 1999 . American Archives: Gender, Race, and Class in Visual Culture . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press . Stoler Ann Laura . 2010 . Along the Archival Grain...

...Paul Crosthwaite; Peter Knight; Nicky Marsh This curation project explores visual representations of financial markets. Focusing on phases of upheaval in transatlantic finance extending back to the early eighteenth century, it traces a recurrent interplay among figuration, abstraction, and allegory...

.... 317 Public Culture You can shop Old Shanghai online to order fashionable attire, photography and footage, city history books, Old Shanghai postcards, posters, archival informa- tion, and other memorabilia — an endless visual...

... taken from us, leaving a gaping hole in our hearts.17 Obama’s description of 9/11 as a national archive of shared and absent images is a striking articulation of the visual trauma that circulates around the event of 9/11 and that screens fears and desires about that event and its consequential...

... . “ The Body and the Archive ”. October 39 : 3 – 64 . Smith Shawn Michelle . 1999 . American Archives: Gender, Race, and Class in Visual Culture . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press . Strassler Karen . 2010 . Refracted Visions: Popular Photography and National Modernity...

... book I thank the staff librarians at Indiana University’s Lilly Library and University of Wiscon- sin  –  Madison’s Memorial Library for their archival assistance. I also thank Stephanie Foote and, especially, Shane Vogel for draft comments. 1. Bill T. Jones, interview, quoted in John...

...Nicholas Mirzoeff This essay examines how the Anthropocene era caused by climate change has been visualized in art from the major industrial powers and how a countervisuality to it might be created. The people of New York seem strangely indifferent to the polluted condition of the harbor...

... are central archives of visuality in that they not only further the investigation of how force-feeding has become a medicalized technique of punishment but also expose the aggressivity essential to contemporary tactics of surveillance, tactics that literally violate the corporeal integrity of the body...

... on the existence of multimodal archives that do not fit a particular online script. How should these audio diaries be integrated into a public culture of pandemic storytelling, given the preponderance of visual centric modes of storytelling? While these brief voice diaries reflect only a small subset...

...Allison Carruth; Robert P. Marzec This special issue of Public Culture explores forms of environmental image making and visualization in the context of the Anthropocene. The essays aim to spark dialogue about how visual technologies and media—from satellite imaging and military simulation...

... are taken up in our first three research essays. A consequence of state violence is often displacement. Rogier van Reekum and Willem Schinkel reveal the often hidden visual infrastructure through which border lines and movement lines are drawn and mobilized, to work upon and understand the migrant...