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Make the Most of Your Memories: Re-Enactment Phototherapy, Auto-Ethnography, Memorialisation

Make the Most of Your Memories: Re-Enactment Phototherapy, Auto-Ethnography, Memorialisation

Rosy Martin
Copyright: © 2023 |Pages: 33
ISBN13: 9781668453377|ISBN10: 1668453371|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781668453414|EISBN13: 9781668453384
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-5337-7.ch012
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Martin, Rosy. "Make the Most of Your Memories: Re-Enactment Phototherapy, Auto-Ethnography, Memorialisation." Handbook of Research on the Relationship Between Autobiographical Memory and Photography, edited by Mark Bruce Nigel Ingham, et al., IGI Global, 2023, pp. 257-289. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-5337-7.ch012

APA

Martin, R. (2023). Make the Most of Your Memories: Re-Enactment Phototherapy, Auto-Ethnography, Memorialisation. In M. Ingham, N. Milic, V. Kantas, S. Andersdotter, & P. Lowe (Eds.), Handbook of Research on the Relationship Between Autobiographical Memory and Photography (pp. 257-289). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-5337-7.ch012

Chicago

Martin, Rosy. "Make the Most of Your Memories: Re-Enactment Phototherapy, Auto-Ethnography, Memorialisation." In Handbook of Research on the Relationship Between Autobiographical Memory and Photography, edited by Mark Bruce Nigel Ingham, et al., 257-289. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2023. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-5337-7.ch012

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Abstract

This chapter examines a 40-year photographic practice that has focused upon the relationships between photography and memory. A brief critique of the ‘family album' collection is countered by how it can be opened up. A description is given of how the methodologies of re-enactment phototherapy evolved and developed, illustrated through examples. Memorialisation and the creation of new rituals is set within the history of post-mortem photography. A longitudinal auto-ethnographic study of a 1930s suburban semi-detached home examines both statis and change over time. This too becomes a study of the need for memorialisation and the quotidian every-day. Re-enactment phototherapy is returned to as a means of embodying loss and grief. Acts of reparation and ambivalence are given recognition and representation, as memory itself shifts and changes to accommodate conflicting emotions.

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