In Family Frames Marianne Hirsch uncovers both the deception and the power behind the visual record of family photographs. Hirsch's explorations range across Art Spiegelman's Maus, the 1955 MOMA Family of Man exhibition, the work of Cindy Sherman and Sally Mann, and familial conventions in fiction and essays.
MARIANNE HIRSCH is William Peterfied Trent Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and Professor in the Institute for Research on Women and Gender. She is Vice-President of the Modern Language Association of America. Her current interests include cultural memory, testimony and photography. Her most recent books are Ghosts of Home: The Afterlife of...