Family photography is now more popular than ever thanks to technological advances which allow the storing and sharing of vast numbers of pictures. Here, case study material drawn from the UK offers a deeper understanding of both domestic family photographs and their public display. Recent work in material culture studies, geography, and anthropology is used to approach photographs as objects embedded in social practices, which produce specific social positions, relations and effects.

Preface, Gillian Rose; Chapter 1 Introduction, Gillian Rose; Chapter 2 How to Look at Family Photographs: Practices, Objects, Subjects and Places, Gillian Rose; Chapter 3 What is Done with Family Snaps?, Gillian Rose; Chapter 4 What Happens with this Doing? Family, Domestic Space and Mothering, Gillian Rose; Chapter 5 The Circulation of Family Photographs in the Visual Economy, Gillian Rose; Chapter 6 Family Photos Going Public, Gillian Rose; Chapter 7 The Politics of Sentiment: Picturing the Missing and the Dead in London, July 2005, Gillian Rose; Chapter 8 Looking Again, Ethically, at Family Snaps in the Mass Media, Gillian Rose; Chapter 9 Conclusions: Family Photographs, Domestic and Public, and the Contemporary Visual Economy, Gillian Rose;

Gillian Rose is Professor of Cultural Geography at the Open University, UK