6 ‘There Was Never a Camp Here’: Searching for Vapniarka

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgements xiii
5. 1 Locating Memory: Photographic Acts – An Introduction 1
6. Part I: Identities
7. 2 Re-placing History: Critiquing the Colonial Gaze through Photographic Works by Jeffrey Thomas and Greg Staats 21
8. 3 Photography, ‘Englishness’ and Collective Memory: The National Photographic Record Association, 1897–1910 53
9. 4 A Story of Escape: Family Photographs from Japanese Canadian Internment Camps 81
10. Part II: Dis/Locations
11. 5 The Return of the Aura: Contemporary Writers Look Back at the First World War Photograph 113
12. 6 ‘There Was Never a Camp Here’: Searching for Vapniarka 135
13. 7 The Space Between: Photography and the Time of Forgetting in the Work of Willie Doherty 155
14. 8 Displaced Events: Photographic Memory and Performance Art 173
15. Part III: Reframings
16. 9 Vietnam War Photography as a Locus of Memory 201
17. 10 Speaking the Album: An Application of the Oral-Photographic Framework 223
18. 11 Talking Through: This Space Around Four Pictures by Jeff Wall 247
19. Bibliography 269
20. Notes on Contributors 283