In visible presence : Soviet afterlives in family photos / Oksana Sarkisova and Olga Shevchenko

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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Modes of Production -- Chapter Thumbnails: A Brief Outline -- Part I: The Soviet Past in the Domestic Archive -- 1: Time to Choose Your Past -- Past Forward: Remembering the Soviet Century -- The Search for New/Old Heroes -- Speaking in the First Person -- Picturing the Past -- 2: Do-It-Yourself Universe -- Soviet-Style Photographic Literacy: Kodak in the Land of the Bolsheviks -- You Push the Button-Who Does the Rest? -- Seeing Soviet: A Whirlwind Tour through the Photo Archives -- What's in a Frame: Different Generations Making Sense of Family Snapshots -- 3: Material Lives, Transitional Moments -- "My Granny Had It in the Old House": The Move of the Century -- Transitional Moments: Inheriting Photo Collections -- Private Photographs Go Public -- 4: Spaces of Belonging -- Leisure Geographies -- Leisure and Patriotism: Memories of Soviet-Era Package Tours -- Conquering the "Wilderness" -- The Center That Holds -- Seaside Stories -- Domestic Elsewhere: Soviet "Occident" and "Orient" -- Looking Back: Reenchanting the Space -- Part II: Questioning "Transmission" -- 5: Seeing Silence -- Knowing Silence: "Grandma Had It Buried Down Deep" -- Erasing the Past: Material Traces of Silence -- Squaring the Circle: From Silence to Oblivion -- Get Up and Search -- 6: Landscapes of Local Memory -- The Novocherkassk Massacre of 1962: Event in Search of Commemoration -- Memory on Display -- The Event as a Trace -- Memory and Erasure: Shifting Frames -- 7: Generational Frames -- A Commissar Emerges -- Perspective Matters: Emplotting a Biography -- Yiddish Boys Playing the Fiddle -- Thanks for the Victory, Grandpa! -- 8: The Album as Performance -- The Album as a Performative Object -- A Cinderella of Sorts: (In)visible Biography -- The Spectacle of Secrecy -- Destruction Spiral: Repetition and Difference.

Part III: A Different Kind of Presence -- 9: Labors of Care and Repair -- From Photograph to Person-and Back Again -- The Power to Move: A Tale of Two Collages -- Photography and Mourning -- Icons of Memory -- A New Kind of Authority -- 10: Photographs on the March -- Gaining Momentum: The Public Life of Private Photographs -- "Improving" Family Photographs -- Visual Precedents -- The Production of Enchantment -- Street Magic -- Coda -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix: Notes on Method -- Notes -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- Chapter 10 -- Coda -- Appendix: Notes on Method -- Index.