Remembering with Rephotography: A Social Practice for the Inventions of Memories

Kalin, Jason

doi:10.1080/15551393.2013.820589

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“…The visual composition of a rephotograph signals a particular engagement with memory, one that elicits moments of evidence, truth, and nostalgia. Interacting with memory prescribes a particular way of relating to and being in the world (Heidegger 1962, Kalin 2013, and more so mediates a worldview for the user-a tenant of post-phenomenological encounters. Situating oneself in the field to capture a 'rephotograph' becomes a technical and embodied practice of situating the camera in position and meticulously matching the foreground and background features of both what is depicted through the camera lens and the original, historical photo.…”

Section: Rephotography As a Methodology Of Memorymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Within all of these images, past and present are no longer discrete, opposing eras, but rather are merged contemporarily. Combining two timespaces into one frame, rephotographs generate the paradox of perspective (Kalin 2013). All of the precedents discussed throughout this project, including the AR apps, take a retrospective approach, extracting the 'time 1' content from the collections whether archival or crowdsourced, and subsequently visiting the documented sites for the production of 'time 2' content.…”

Section: Image Acquisitionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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me-dérive: toronto: Remediating the [AR]chival Impulse

Morais

2024

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This dissertation is an innovative exploration of the intersections between participatory archiving and augmented reality (AR), rooted in the necessity to engage more fully with Toronto’s diverse and historical cultural heritage. Foregrounded as research-creation, this work describes, theorizes, and disseminates an AR counter-archive— me-dérive: toronto. Mobilizing power away from institutional archives and into the hands of the public, me-dérive: toronto uses the power of locative media in order to provide records of Toronto’s diverse past and present in-situ. A portmanteau of the word ‘mediation’ and the Situationist’s notion of the dérive, the app produces a new paradigm to the archive— one that is simultaneously participatory and techno-informed. With every found photograph and submission alike the project multiples both in volume and vigor to combat the archival injustices that fail to narrativize Canadian immigrant identities. This counter-archive reclaims space through a participatory visual account of history, allowing for a different kind of knowledge—one that is techno-embodied—to emerge and be embraced. As the scope of the records and overall scale of the project amplifies, it engages a layer of complementary principles— the accrual of diverse narratives, the opposition of pre-prescribed history by governing institutions, and the dynamism to employ technology to engage critically with heritage records beyond the confinements of exclusive cultural spaces. Through historical research, precedent scanning, insights into cultural production, participatory and mobile app observation and research-creation projects, counter-archival projects demand that institutions become more inclusive, not only in collection practices, but in dissemination and access practices as well. My research addresses the gaps and omissions that exist in our institutional archives, while making explicit what is needed to make a more holistic, comprehensive archive of Toronto’s diverse narratives.

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Section: Rephotography As a Methodology Of Memorymentioning

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Section: Image Acquisitionmentioning

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me-dérive: toronto: Remediating the [AR]chival Impulse

Morais

2024

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“…Since rephotographies typically 'challenge historical distanciation because the "then" of past and the "now" of the present become entangled with one another' (Miles 2016, 65), rephotography has been particularly linked to practices and experiences of memory and spacetimes (Kalin 2013). In Auggie's intimate rephotography project, the suspension, the stretching and the desire to play or even control time is evident.…”

Section: Rephotography I: Slowness and Repetition As Movement Of Urba...mentioning

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“…Following Bogost, it helps to see things in pictures; as suggested by Auggie, 'things happen there'. As Kalin (2013) notes when commenting upon Bogost's intervention, a 'logic of addition and coexistence encourages us to treat the rephotograph's ontology, or hauntology as flat. '…”

Section: Rephotography Ii: Visual Ontographies Of the Urbanmentioning

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Repetition, movement and the visual ontographies of urban rephotography: learning from Smoke (1995)

Rossetto

Vanolo

2021

Mobilities

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Engaging with a scene of the iconic movie Smoke (by Wayne Wang, 1995) in which a rephotographic project is sensitively elicited, this paper addresses the technique of repeat photography to contribute to methodological debates that have arisen within the nascent 'Mobility and Humanities' subfield. Through a humanistic perspective, the paper reviews and expands the nexus between mobility, photography and the urban by comparing the technique with three methodological issues: the blurring of supposed binaries, such as traditional/innovative, static/moving and fast/slow; the possibility of grasping the mobilities of the world in a post-human vein; and the opportunity to also consider techniques as sites for reflection. To address these issues, the paper draws from philosophies of movement, post-phenomenological and object-oriented stances and visual and urban cultural geographies. With reference to the urban realm, this paper proposes three perspectives on rephotography, namely (1) rephotography as a practice of slow and rhythmic attunement with circumstantial spacetimes moving backwards and forwards; (2) rephotography as a visual ontography that displaces the human and opens up space for the apprehension of the agency and mobility of things; and (3) rephotography as a continual process of activation of moving gazes on cities and their imaginaries.

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Repeat Photography and Educational Research

Metcalfe¹

2016

Visual Research Methods in Educational Research

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Remembering with Rephotography: A Social Practice for the Inventions of Memories

Cited by 15 publications

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me-dérive: toronto: Remediating the [AR]chival Impulse

me-dérive: toronto: Remediating the [AR]chival Impulse

Repetition, movement and the visual ontographies of urban rephotography: learning from Smoke (1995)

Repeat Photography and Educational Research

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