Editors: Peter Aronsson, Andrej Slávik, Birgitta Svensson (eds)
ISBN: 978-91-88763-07-5
ISSN: 0348-1433
Pages: 280
Publishing date: 2020
Serie: KVHAA Konferenser 99
The outcome of an international symposium taking place on 27–28 April 2017 at the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities in Stockholm, this anthology can be read from either end. At one end, a number of essays addressing the question of how pictorial, especially photographic, representations can and have been understood either as historical artefacts or as sources of knowledge about the past. In a nutshell, images in history. Turn the book over again and continue reading. At the other end, an equal number of contributions – texts as well as images – that approach the same question from the reverse angle: how pictorial, especially photographic, representations can themselves be used to convey a new and different understanding of the past. In another nutshell, history in images. Taken together, the two parts of the volume are intended, each from its own perspective, to prepare the ground for a new historical (sub)discipline, viz. (audio)visual historiography.
With contributions by Peter Aronsson, Ariella Azoulay, Marcu Banks, Jamie Baron, Magnus Bärtås, Marci Sá Cavalcante Schuback, Carlo Ginzburg, Karin Gustavsson, Maria Lantz, Helene Larsson Pousette, Oscar Mangione, Deimantas Narkevicius, Sylvie Rollet, Lina Selander, Andrej Slávik, Birgitta Svensson, Michelle Teran, Malin Wahlberg, Peter Watkins, Louise Wolthers
Michelle Teran, From the plazas and beyond. A visual essay
Abstract: Spring 2015. The streets, balconies, and walls of Barcelona and Madrid were aflame with political imagery put forth a loose network of creatives in preparation for the upcoming municipal elections. The Movimiento de Liberación Gráfica de Barcelona (Graphic Liberation Movement of Barcelona, MLGB), Movimiento de Liberación Gráfica de Madrid (Graphic Liberation Movement of Madrid, MLGM) and Madrid con Manuela (Madrid with Manuela, MconM) platforms – composed of designers, illustrators, filmmakers and video activists, visual artists, photographers and musicians, journalists and hackers – focused their creative efforts to support two upcoming mayoral candidates. This essay focuses on a particular subset of images created during the excitement of the electoral process which culminated in both women becoming mayors of two of the most important cities in Spain. Here we find an assemblage of superheroes, soldiers, action figures, revolutionaries and other icons taken from popular culture.