Hinkson Melinda (ed.). Imaging Identity: Media, Memory And Portraiture In The Digital Age

Acton: ANU Press, 2016. — 164 p. — ISBN10: 1760460400; ISBN13: 978-1760460402Imaging Identity presents potent reflections on the human condition through the prism of portraiture. Taking digital imaging technologies and the dynamic and precarious dimensions of contemporary identity as critical reference points, these essays consider why portraits continue to have such galvanising appeal and perform fundamental work across so many social settings. This multidisciplinary enquiry brings together artists, art historians, art theorists and anthropologists working with a variety of media. Authors look beyond conventional ideas of the portrait to the wider cultural contexts, governmental practices and intimate experiences that shape relationships between persons and pictures. Their shared purpose centres on a commitment to understanding the power of images to draw people into their worlds. Imaging Identity tracks a fundamental symbiosis — to grapple with the workings of images is to understand something vital of what it is to be human.Introduction: The time of the portrait is now. Melinda HinksonThe work of the imaginationRembrandt, or the portrait as encounter. Didier Maleuvre
Pictures for our time and place: Reflections on painting in a digital age. Melinda Hinkson
Diasporic looking: Portraiture, diaspora and subjectivity. Gali WeissInterfacesThe self-portrait and the film and video essay. John Conomos
The mutable face. Michele Barker and Anna Munster
BarkTV: Portrait of an innovator. Jennifer Deger