Call For Papers para el nº 25-2022: Recuerdos visuales fotográficos

Call for Papers, 25-2022: Photographic Visual Memories

In the past few decades, Social Sciences and Neuroscientific research have turned to Memory Studies. Neuroscience research has focused on neuronal connections and other processes involved in memory creation. How memories are made, and how individuals are made of these memories is the basis of Veronica O’Keane’s A Sense of Self (2021). From the Social Science perspective, Memory Studies examine the role of memory in identity formation, exploring how individuals, groups, or whole societies remember or forget. Post-memory, re-memory, family post-memory, affiliative memory, collective visual memory, etc., all refer to the individual’s memory (autobiography, self-portraits, diaries), but also to second and third generations’ transmitted memories.

Photographic Visual Memories examines the many representations of real or false memories: as introspection, as a way to learn about the author’s identity and origin, as artificial memories, as a means of questioning the reality of an image. And also, as a speculative way of first-person documenting its own processes of exhibition and image viewing.

Research topics include:

Family portraits

From the self-portrait to the selfie

Photographs of photographs and photographers

Photography, film, and memory

Photographic memories

Fake photographic memories

From the analogic photo album to digital consumption

Narrative, history, and photographic analysis

City and nostalgia

Documentation and archiving