Introduction: Oral History and Photography

Freund, Alexander; Thomson, Alistair

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“…With their professional contributions situated within a ‘whole of life’ framework, each interviewee responded to questions about their daily working experiences, the media industry and career highlights, and their own photographic practices. The ‘photographic turn’ in oral history methodology, whereby photographs serve as prompts for memory work (Freund and Thomson, 2011), took on a new inflection as photographers told stories of how they made the pictures that have shaped public understandings of national and international news.…”

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The ‘girls’: women press photographers and the representation of women in Australian newspapers

Darian‐Smith

2016

Media International Australia

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In 1975, Fairfax News commemorated International Women’s Year by appointing Lorrie Graham as its first female cadet photographer. Women only joined the photographic staff of newspapers in significant numbers from the 1980s and were more likely to be employed on regional newspapers than the metropolitan dailies. This article draws on interviews with male and female press photographers collected for the National Library of Australia’s oral history programme. It provides an overview of the history of women press photographers in Australia, situating their working lives within an overtly masculine newspaper culture where gender inequity was entrenched. It also examines the gendered and evolving photographic representations of women in the Australian press, including those of women in positions of social and political leadership. Although women press photographers have achieved greater recognition in the 2000s, the transformation of the media industry has impacted the working practices and employment of press photographers.

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The ‘girls’: women press photographers and the representation of women in Australian newspapers

Darian‐Smith

2016

Media International Australia

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“…Group interviews usefully create observable social dynamics between interviewees in recollecting their experiences of the deceased, reminding each other of past events, or recollecting different dimensions of an event or person, providing fuller descriptions (Smith, 2006; Morgan, 1996). I also reviewed documentary evidence, including Douglas’s report cards, photos, writings or drawings, to evoke their memories and discussion (Freund and Thomson, 2011; Parker, 2009). Finally, I read relevant affidavits, court documents, newspapers, and blog accounts and online sources.…”

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“…repeatedly discussing Douglas's daily habits with family and friends, reviewing his diary/artifacts or other documents (e.g. school records, expert reports, contemporaneous news/ blog reports/comments; Kligman, 1998;Scourfield et al, 2012;Duneier, 1999;Freund and Thomson, 2011;Murthy, 2008). This biographical approach offered a plausible alternative future to that inherent in the school district's low offers, and established Douglas's route to legal status.…”

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What’s a life worth? Ethnographic counterfactual analysis, undocumented status and sociological autopsy in a wrongful death lawsuit

Smith

2016

Ethnography

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This paper asks 'What is a life worth?' by analyzing the wrongful death lawsuit for Douglas Morales, an undocumented student who died in 2008 at 17 from brain injuries suffered playing football. The paper first examines how sociologists and New Jersey law monetarily value a child's life, especially when undocumented status would have decreased long-term earnings. Second, it uses ethnographic, counterfactual methods to do a 'sociological autopsy' offering a plausible alternative, a more positive scenarioincluding a path to legal status -for Douglas's future life. It uses interviews and document review to establish Douglas's life habits, leveraging sociological and psychological research on immigrant youth achievers to predict higher future earnings. The paper advances 'public sociology' by deploying ethnographic, case-oriented methods to challenge the devaluation of this undocumented life, critique American immigration policies, and to help the decedent's family directly.

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“…The use of archives for memory stimulation is an accepted process for oral history practitioners. 16 More recently archives have been shown to be powerful agents in recovering forgotten memories, but they have generally been used as a means of interpreting the past rather than as tools of memory. 17 Museum-run memory projects, such as National Museums Liverpool's programme House of Memories, have identified heritage images and objects as having therapeutic value.…”

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Multi-sensory potential of archives in dementia care

Tischler

Clapp

2019

Archives and Records

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This paper aimed to review the potential for archival items to be used to support therapeutic interventions in dementia care, with a particular focus on olfactory stimuli. Archival research was used to identify objects and to recreate authentic historical product fragrances from Boots UK. Potentially therapeutic material and smells for people living with dementia were identified and olfactory profiles created. These were characterized by strong smells and items featuring well-known brands and distinctive packaging including carbolic soap and Old English Lavender talcum powder. A dataset of items has been created for use in future research studies.

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Introduction: Oral History and Photography

Cited by 10 publications

References 18 publications

The ‘girls’: women press photographers and the representation of women in Australian newspapers

The ‘girls’: women press photographers and the representation of women in Australian newspapers

What’s a life worth? Ethnographic counterfactual analysis, undocumented status and sociological autopsy in a wrongful death lawsuit

Multi-sensory potential of archives in dementia care

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