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This article examines how photographs of women taken by Marc Garanger during his army service in Algeria (1960–1962) have become sites of multiple, often competing mnemonic projections. At the height of the Algerian War of Independence, Garanger produced nearly two thousand identity photographs of those displaced by the French army from villages to detention camps. The photographs of women are some of the most cited images from the war, having been popularised through Garanger’s own photobooks. They are either read as strictly exploitative or, following Garanger’s narrative, as bearing witness to Algerian suffering. The article departs from attempts to fix the ‘true’ meaning of these images and examines their afterlives, while reflecting upon the hyper-visibility of women as images. It discusses newly recovered archival material, alongside Garanger’s decision to return to Algeria in 2004, revealing inconsistencies in Garanger’s carefully crafted narrative and reflecting upon the speculative futures of these contested images.
Author(s): Falecka K
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Third Text
Year: 2023
Volume: 37
Issue: 1
Pages: 44-60
Online publication date: 25/05/2023
Acceptance date: 25/03/2023
Date deposited: 19/07/2023
ISSN (print): 0952-8822
ISSN (electronic): 1475-5297
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/09528822.2023.2211468
DOI: 10.1080/09528822.2023.2211468
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