The creatures time forgot : photography and disability imagery

摘要: The growth of the disabilities movement, campaigning for "rights not charity" has led to a need re-examine representation disabled people. As photographer and writer, David Hevey been pioneer in changing visual representations He advocates move away from medical, charity or impairment fixation into equivalent charity". Hevey's work forms basis this book; sense, "The Creatures Time Forgot" is political autobiography. book presents within wider context disability photographic representation, Charities Advertising Disabled-led Alternative Imagery use construction photography Left Social Services. examines what gone wrong with people, why they are neither present as human nor empowered people these forms. examination explores metaphorical role person American documentary such Gary Winogrand Walker Evans. This should be interest undergraduates studying photography, social policy, cultural studies work.