Family photographs and domestic spacings: a case study

Rose, Gillian (2003). Family photographs and domestic spacings: a case study. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 28(1) pp. 5–18.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-5661.00074

Abstract

This paper elaborates the argument that domestic space should be considered as the product of relations that extend beyond the home. It examines one common domestic object – family photographs – and explores how the particularity of this photography and the specificity of its display by white middle-class mothers with young children in South-east England produce just such an extended domestic space. The stretched space co-produced by these mothers and photographs is also a form of stretched time, and it is integrative in complex ways; it contains different kinds of absences which disturb but do not break its cohesion. The paper also discusses why the display of family photographs is done almost exclusively by women.

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