IMAGINING EVERYDAY LIFE: ENGAGEMENTS WITH VERNACULAR PHOTOGRAPHY - with texts by Ariella Azoulay, Geoffrey Batchen, Ali Behdad, et al

Steidl/The Walther Collection, 2020, First edition, 431 pp., 7 3/4" X 9 3/4", Softcover As new (still in publisher's shrink wrap) Imagining Everyday Life: Engagements with Vernacular Photography surveys the expansive field of vernacular photography, the vast archive of utilitarian images created for bureaucratic structures, commercial usage and personal commemoration (as opposed to aesthetic purposes). As a crucial extension of its ongoing investigation of vernacular photography, the Walther Collection has collaborated with key scholars and critical thinkers in the history of photography, women’s studies, queer theory, Africana studies and curatorial practice to interrogate vernacular’s theoretical limits, as well as to conduct case studies of a striking array of objects and images, many from the collection’s holdings.From identification portraits of California migrant workers, physique photographs that circulated underground in queer communities, to one-of-a-kind commemorative milita