The Photograph as Network: Tracing – Disentangling – Relating: ANT as a Methodology in Visual Culture Studies

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  • Frauke Katharina Wiegand
Inspired by actor-network theory (ANT), this article develops a theoretical framework to grasp the dynamic visual work of memory. It introduces three sensitizing concepts of actor-network methodology, namely entanglement, relationality and traceability, and operationalizes them in a methodological tool for reading the net-work of images. The case is two visitor snapshots at the photographic exhibition, ‘The Story of Soweto’, in the famous Regina Mundi Church in Soweto, South Africa. I demonstrate that, when slightly adjusted for research engaging with visual materials, Latourian concepts are indeed productive for analyzing visual material and visual practices of memorial sites.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
BogserieAcademic Quarter
Vol/bind15
Sider (fra-til)54-66
Antal sider13
ISSN1904-0008
StatusUdgivet - 2017

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