The Photograph as Network: Tracing – Disentangling – Relating: ANT as a Methodology in Visual Culture Studies

TY - JOUR

T1 - The Photograph as Network

T2 - Tracing – Disentangling – Relating: ANT as a Methodology in Visual Culture Studies

AU - Wiegand, Frauke Katharina

PY - 2017

Y1 - 2017

N2 - Inspired by actor-network theory (ANT), this article develops a theoretical framework to grasp the dynamic visual work of memory. It introduces three sensitizing concepts of actor-network methodology, namely entanglement, relationality and traceability, and operationalizes them in a methodological tool for reading the net-work of images. The case is two visitor snapshots at the photographic exhibition, ‘The Story of Soweto’, in the famous Regina Mundi Church in Soweto, South Africa. I demonstrate that, when slightly adjusted for research engaging with visual materials, Latourian concepts are indeed productive for analyzing visual material and visual practices of memorial sites.

AB - Inspired by actor-network theory (ANT), this article develops a theoretical framework to grasp the dynamic visual work of memory. It introduces three sensitizing concepts of actor-network methodology, namely entanglement, relationality and traceability, and operationalizes them in a methodological tool for reading the net-work of images. The case is two visitor snapshots at the photographic exhibition, ‘The Story of Soweto’, in the famous Regina Mundi Church in Soweto, South Africa. I demonstrate that, when slightly adjusted for research engaging with visual materials, Latourian concepts are indeed productive for analyzing visual material and visual practices of memorial sites.

M3 - Journal article

SN - 1904-0008

VL - 15

SP - 54

EP - 66

JO - Akademisk kvarter

JF - Akademisk kvarter

ER -