During my time in Paris so far, I’ve been trying to go to a lot of the free museums and memorials. This past week, I went to the Mémorial de la Shoah and to the Maison Européenne de la Photographie (MEP), which I thought was free based on information I found, but it actually costs €13. At each of these museums, I became intrigued by some of the photographs … Read More The Framing of Ourselves Through Self-Portraits
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Over the years, I have, as many of you have as well, taken countless photos on my phone. I enjoy taking pictures, capturing a moment in time on screen. I do not view photographs as being a direct reality of what happened at that moment; instead, I view them as a staged (framed) moment that depicts a time, a feeling, a mood, not reality. … Read More Some of My Favorite Photographs That I Have Taken Over the Years
+ george takei, graphic memoir, graphic novels, memory, photographs, The Best We Could Do, they called us enemy, Thi Bui
Over the last two posts, I have looked at the ways that Thi Bui deploys photographs in her graphic memoir The Best We Could Do, exploring how these photographs function not only in relation to the narrative but also in relation to the construction of memory within in the text. Today, I want to finish my examination of photographs and memory in Bui’s graphic … Read More Photographs and Memory in Thi Bui’s “The Best We Could Do”: Part III
In my previous post, I started writing about photographs and constructions of memory in Thi Bui’s The Best We Could Do. Over the past year, I’ve been drawn to the ways that graphic memoirists use actual photographs within their work. Occasionally, they use actual copies of the photographs, but for the majority of the texts that I have looked at, creators reproduce the photographs, … Read More Photographs and Memory in Thi Bui’s “The Best We Could Do”: Part II
+ graphic memoir, graphic novels, I Was Their American Dream, Malaka Gharib, memory, photographs, The Best We Could Do, Thi Bui
In my last post, I looked at the role of photographs in Malaka Gharib’s I Was Their American Dream. Today, I want to continue that discussion by looking at the ways that Thi Bui depicts and deploys photographs in The Best We Could Do, a graphic memoir about her family’s escape from South Vietnam and immigration to the United States in 1970s. On the … Read More Photographs and Memories in Thi Bui’s “The Best We Could Do”: Part I
