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Christopher Hawkes on photographic remedies.(Book Review)-

Publication: Arena Magazine
Publication Date: 01-FEB-03
Format: Online - approximately 851 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Christopher Hawkes on photographic remedies.(Book Review)-(book review)

Article Excerpt
Annette Kuhn Family Secrets: Acts of Memory and Imagination London, Verso 2002

With Family Secrets: Acts of Memory and Imagination, Annette Kuhn is clearly aiming for a more general audience than her previous writings on film theory have accommodated--this collection of essays functioning as memoir, self-help guide, and cultural criticism. Through the examination of family photographs and other images familiar from her infancy (building upon the `memory work' of Jo Spence and Valerie Walkerdine), Kuhn seeks to exorcise childhood traumas while questioning the nature of personal and collective memory along the way. Hoping that this book be used `as a recipe, a toolkit, even an inspiration, for the reader's own memory work', Kuhn identifies this `phototheray' as an empowering and healing process and the almost universally...



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