Link 9 Dec 109 notes "But for the camera, you smile"»

ofanotherfashion:

Dressed to the nines and going to Manzanar internment camp. 

”In an act as seemingly trivial and trite as smiling for the camera, these women interrupt and take some control of the historical, political, and visual frames through which they’re being viewed. And in this way, these kinds of photographs exemplify precisely the goals at the heart of this alternative archive: to present an alternative mode of historical knowledge that is based not simply on an archive of facts (e.g., dates, designers, and design styles) but rather - to adapt a phrase from the queer performance scholar Ann Cvetkovich - one based on an archive of feelings.” -Minh-ha T. Pham “For the Camera, You Smile”: Feeling Political

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