Artigo Revisado por pares

Wedding Photography: ‘A Shining Language’

2002; Routledge; Volume: 18; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/01973760290026477

ISSN

1477-2809

Autores

Lili Corbus Bezner,

Tópico(s)

American History and Culture

Resumo

Wedding photography, an important and telling popular culture practice, has been largely ignored in histories of the medium. This article seeks to redress that imbalance by connecting these images to Victor Turner's anthropological theory, feminist analyses of "the gaze", and capitalist visions of "romance". Bezner argues that wedding photographs and albums symbolically demonstrate the enduring centrality of ritual in contemporary America while addressing complex issues such as social change, gender and economics.

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