Re-imag(in)ing the digital domestic sphere: a critical-creative study of photography and motherhood in the 21st century
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My research explores the relationship between photography and motherhood and, more specifically, the cultural construction of motherhood through digital photographs. The methodology of this critical-creative investigation involves two parts: 1) a case study analysis of select images of the author's children from her personal digital photography collections and 2) the development of a digital platform that encourages reflective engagement in domestic photographs and values the ambiguity and complexity of motherhood. Here, I demonstrate how the contextualization and design of visual media can restore historical specificity to domestic images and enable them to reflect personal experiences of motherhood.
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ISBN:9781450336482
DOI:10.1145/2775441
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