Available soon | Photoworks Issue 18
Futures Past: History, Memory and Nostalgia
When Eastman Kodak filed for bankruptcy protection in January this year, Twitter feeds and Facebook groups jarred against specialists wheeled out to mourn the passing of an analogue icon. Could this coverage be taken as representative of wider tensions shaping various areas of current cultural production? As the ghosts of an analogue past come to haunt a digital present, forms of nostalgia loom large in some quarters, while the optimistic claims made for new technologies are subject to increasing scrutiny.
Issue 18 examines these issues in relation to a wide variety of practices. Stretching from art photography to mobile phone apps, museums to social networking sites.
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