Framing the Interpreter: Towards a visual perspective
Michaela Wolf, "Framing the Interpreter: Towards a visual perspective"
English | ISBN: 0415712742 | 2014 | 204 pages | PDF | 5 MB
English | ISBN: 0415712742 | 2014 | 204 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Situations of conflict offer special insights into the history of the interpreter figure, and specifically the part played in that history by photographic representations of interpreters.
This book analyses photo postcards, snapshots and press photos from several historical periods of conflict, associated with different photographic technologies and habits of image consumption: the colonial period, the First and Second World War, and the Cold War. The book’s methodological approach to the "framing" of the interpreter uses tools taken primarily from visual anthropology, sociology and visual syntax to analyse the imagery of the modern era of interpreting. By means of these interpretative frames, the contributions suggest that each culture, subculture or social group constructed its own representation of the interpreter figure through photography.
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