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Immigrants, Memory and Photography “The Immaculate Conception Photography Gallery” by Katherine Govier Outline General Issues: City on three levels Immigrants, memory and photography “Immaculate Conception”: Starting Questions Sandro as an immigrant; Different Views on photography; Sandro’s changes The author and her words Issues related to a CityCanadian ? Individual ? General racial and gender relationships; immigrant ghettos identity: initiation, parents, religion, death, trauma, mask, passion, value. history – portrait in “Canvas of Time,” and the wall and confession in “Le Confessionnal.” concept city vs. lived city; (Lion) rational planning vs. disordered, multiple spaces (utopia vs. heterotopia) (“Mislaid”) invisible cities (in culture, of history) and imagined communities (“Daybreak”; newspapers) Immigrants, Memory and Photography Immigrants: permanent sojourners, 花果飄零 and 落葉歸根? a potted plant? with an empty luggage? “We have floated upwards from history, from memory, from Time.” (Rushdie, Shame 70-71) Memory: 「不在乎天長地久只在乎曾經擁有」Permanent, unique and genuine? A process of reconstruction? Like watching movies? “The past is a country from which we have all migrated” (“Imaginary Homelands”) Immigrants, Memory and Photography (2) Like cars and newspaper, it is a sign of modernity; (Cf. Govier’s words); like T.V. and movies, it is part of contemporary visual culture. Evidence of identity memory/history photorealism ?? mechanical reproduction Photorealism? by Close, Chuck Starting Questions Why do the customers want to have their photos changed? Why does Sandro disagree with it, but then keep on doing it? What types of moral judgment does he make along the way? How do his wife and his drunkard-friend Becker respond to them? What does Sandro do at the end? Would you keep on doing it if you were Sando? What have these changes to do with immigrant identities in a city? How else do we “fix” our memories? Or sur