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Not-so-safe Europeans: Interrogating Identities and Photographic Conventions in Pelle Kronestedt’sSafe European

Maria Nilsson
Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Iowa, USA

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Published in: Inter: A European Cultural Studies : Conference in Sweden 11-13 June 2007

Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 25:48, p. 449-455

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Published: 2007-11-27

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ISSN: 1650-3686 (print), 1650-3740 (online)

Abstract

This paper addresses the intersection of European photography and European identity through a discussion of Safe European; a photographic project on identity and youth unemployment by Swedish photographer Pelle Kronestedt. In an analy¬sis informed by semiotics and work on the political rhetoric of photography; the author argues that; through display in an unusual exhibition locale and an unexpected focus for a documentary photographic project on such a subject; Safe European subverts expectations and raises questions about photographic repre¬sentation and cultural attitudes.

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