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The Visual Is Political: Feminist Photography and Countercultural Activity in 1970s Britain 9781978800359
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The Visual Is Political Southern England and South Wales Colin Edwards Signature Book Representation (UK) Ltd T: + 44 (0)1483 222333 M: + 44 (0)7980 568967 E: colin.edwards862@gmail.com Midlands (excluding Oxford), Northern England, North Wales and Scotland Jim Sheehan Signature Book Representation (UK) Ltd T: +44 (0)8458621730 M: 07970700505 E: jim@signaturebooksuk.com East Anglia (excluding Cambridge and Norwich) Gillian Hawkins Hawkins Publishing Services Gill.hawkins.hps@btinternet.com T: 01342 893029 M: 07810 648891 EUROPE France Interart S.A.R.L. T: +33 1 43 49 36 60 E: commercial@interart.fr Germany, Austria and Switzerland Michael Klein T +49 8742 9645522 E: mi-klein@t-online.de Holland, Belgium and Luxembourg Exhibitions International T: +32 16296900 E: orders@exhibitionsinternational.be www.exhibitionsinternational.be Spain and Portugal Jenny Padovani Frias Padovani Books E: jenny@padovanibooks.com M: +34 637027587 Greece Isabella Curtis Padovani Books T: + 30 210 7218995 E: isabella@padovanibooks.com ASIA & AFRICA South Africa Giulietta Campanelli SG Distributors Unit 11 Sandton Commercial Village Cnr 7th Ave and 15th St Eastgate ext 18 Johannesburg 2148 South Africa T: +27 11 444 9050/41 F: +27 11 444 9042 E: giulietta@sgdistributors.co.za West, Central, and East Africa Contact ACC offices India Om Arora The Variety Book Depot T: + 011 41517101 E: varietybookdepot@gmail.com Hong Kong, Taiwan, Philippines Zita Chan Asia Publishers Services Ltd T: +852 2553 9289 E: zita_chan@asiapubs.com.hk China China Publishers Marketing Pan Jie, General Manager T/F: 0086-21-54259557 M: 0086-13061629622 E: benjamin.pan@cpmarketing.com.cn E: mr_@163.com Skype: mr_messiaen UK SALES OFFICE DETAILS Sales & Marketing Director: Matthew Freedman M: +44 (0) 7986 336435 E: matthew.freedman@accartbooks.com Japan, South Korea Yasy Murayama T: +81 48 770 2003 F: +81 48 770 2533 E: yasy@yasmy.com Or: Sheila Summers T: +44 (0) 20 8504 7116 E: formtone@dircon.co. by Jagdish PatelFollow @jagdish__patel The death of Stuart Hall on the 10th February was marked by worldwide praise for ‘Britain’s leading cultural theorist’. (2014. Stuart Hall – obituary, Daily Telegraph, 10th February,) It is rare for an academic to receive accolades in the mainstream press, and this perhaps reflects how Hall presented his ideas, not only through academic books, but through newspaper articles, periodicals, on television, conference talks and by attending ordinary public meetings. My own introduction to Stuart Hall was made by staying up after midnight to watch him present Open University talks. This was in my teens, and even though I didn’t really understand his talks, what I wanted to watch was a radical perspective on black lives in Britain, a perspective that was not articulated in the mainstream television programs. Stuart Hall would be the first to point out that using the term ‘black’, in relation to one’s identity is not straightforward. Throughout his life, Hall engaged in a continual process of defining and then re-defining his own identity. It is interesting to note that some of the inspiration for this preoccupation with identity derived from his discussions with black artists. In an interview with Maya Jaggi he explained ‘I was writing about identity, and they were practising it, it made me more alert to the way artistic work is an exploratory space in which ideas work themselves out’ (Jaggi, 2000. Prophet at the margins. The Guardian, 8 July). There is not much written specifically about Stuart Hall’s relationship with photography, even though he wrote prefaces for numerous photography books, and helped launch Autograph ABP (Association of Black Photographers) at the Photographers Gallery in 1988. He was also the Chair of both Autograph and Iniva (the Institute of International Visual Arts), the two leading organisations who promote photographers from ethnic minorities in Britain. Stuart Hall’s writings about class, r .
The Visual Is Political Feminist Photography and Countercultural Activity in 1970s Britain
NA’AMA KLORMAN-E RAQI
Rutgers University Press New Brunswick, Camden, and Newark, New Jersey, and London
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Klorman-Eraqi, Na’ama, 1979– author. Title: The visual is political : feminist photography and countercultural activity in 1970s Britain / Na’ama Klorman-Eraqi. Description: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, 2019. Identifiers: LCCN 2018046487 | ISBN 9781978800311 (paperback) | ISBN 9781978800328 (hardcover) Subjects: LCSH: Feminism—Great Britain—History—20th century. | Feminism and art—Great Britain—History—20th century. | Women photographers—Great Britain—History—20th century. | Great Britain—Economic conditions—20th century. | BISAC: PHOTOGRAPHY / History. | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory. | ART / History / Contemporary (1945–). | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women’s Studies. | ART / Art & Politics. Classification: LCC HQ1593 .K56 2019 | DDC 305.420941/09047—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018046487 A British Cataloging-in-Publication record for this book is available from the British Library. Copyright © 2019 by Na’ama Klorman-Eraqi All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the publisher. Please contact Rutgers University Press, 106 Somerset Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901. The only exception to this prohibition is “fair use” as defined by U.S. copyright law. The paper used in this publication meets the requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48- Spring catalogue 2020