『ピクチャー・ポスト』の政治学 : 1930年代イギリスのフォトジャーナリズムについて

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The inter-war period was a moment pregnant with social and political re-invention: Communism and Fascism, in different ways, were already addressing the problems of social reconstruction in the wake of what was widely perceived as the failure of capitalism. Photojournalists in the 1930s such as Stefan Lorant, the editor of Picture Post, worked to mobilise middle-class sympathy for the socialist cause by using an anthropological trope as their strategy for defining a common cultural identity across class differences. The anthropological trope which framed these social explorers' photographic documentations of working-class homes and working-class modes of labour and leisure initially posited the observer as knower and the working class as an exotic, primitive tribe to be examined. However, they then rewrote the narrative of the worker as exotic other into the story of middle-class self-discovery. That is, what begins as a search for knowledge of the working-class 'local Other' becomes a search for 'self' -knowledge as the working class becomes a vehicle for reflecting middle-class identity. This paper examines the problems and potential of Picture Post and British photojournalism, the cost of mobilising a mass identity based on a re-invented nation's self-image and the ways in which representations of social and cultural identity structure political communities.
英米文化学会の論文
2004-03-31