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Photogenic Poverty: Souvenirs and Infantilism

Anthropology Department, Goldsmiths College, University of London, New Cross, London SE14 6NW, UK.john.hutnyk{at}gold.ac.uk

This article discusses the photograph and the souvenir together as relics of a trinketizing touristic countenance. It argues that the reified image memorializes the exotic other, and a romanticized view of childhood, in the midst of war and deprivation. Charity and memory are bound together here with geo-politics. An analysis of similarities and differences in the ways photographs and souvenirs trace encounters with ‘photogenic poverty’ is urgent. A critical political response would aim to do more than the infantilizing gestures of charity and aid now favoured by liberal concern under late imperial capitalism.

Key Words: charity • children • poverty • photography • trinketization • war

Journal of Visual Culture, Vol. 3, No. 1, 77-94 (2004)
DOI: 10.1177/1470412904042266


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