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Undocumented Migration And Political Community In Susan Meiselas's Crossings Photographs, Sarah Bassnet
Undocumented Migration And Political Community In Susan Meiselas's Crossings Photographs, Sarah Bassnet
Visual Arts Publications
In 1989, Magnum photographer Susan Meiselas (b. 1948) photographed irregular border crossings in southern California. At the time, it was relatively easy for undocumented migrants from Central America and Mexico to cross between ports of entry, even as there was growing pressure on American officials to address border security.1 One photograph in Meiselas’s Crossings series depicts a border patrol officer apprehending a migrant off the interstate near Oceanside (fig. 1). Two torsos fill the center of the image. The officer grasps the man’s clothing, propelling him toward the nearby vehicle. With heads cut off by the frame and backs turned, …
Muddying The Lens: Photographs Of The Canadian Expeditionary Force, Sarah Leilani Hart
Muddying The Lens: Photographs Of The Canadian Expeditionary Force, Sarah Leilani Hart
Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
Over the course of the First World War 4, 507 photographs were produced by the Canadian War Records Office. These photographs were used as propaganda to promote victory overseas and were popularized in exhibitions, magazines, books, and other wartime ephemera. Produced simultaneously to this official record was private soldiers’ photography which is comprised of albums, scrapbooks, personal snapshots, and soldiers’ portraits and communicate a narrative that is both similar and disparate from the official record. This thesis examines the ways in which private and official photographs were formed and how they were used to communicate soldiers’ wartime experience. It argues …