TY - JOUR AU - Wiegand, Frauke PY - 2017/10/11 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - The Photograph as Network: Tracing – Disentangling – Relating: ANT as a Methodology in Visual Culture Studies JF - Academic Quarter | Akademisk kvarter JA - AcademicQuarter VL - 0 IS - 15 SE - DO - 10.5278/ojs.ak.v0i15.2691 UR - https://journals.aau.dk/index.php/ak/article/view/2691 SP - 54-66 AB - <p class="p1">Inspired by actor-network theory (ANT), this article develops a theoretical framework for grasping the dynamic visual work of cultural memory. It introduces three sensitizing concepts derived from Latourian actor-network methodology, namely entanglement, relationality, and traceability, operationalizing them as methodological tools for reading the net-work of images. The objects of study are two visitor snapshots of the photographic exhibition, <em>The Story of Soweto</em>, at the famous Regina Mundi Church in Soweto, South Africa. I demonstrate that, when slightly adjusted for research engaging with visual materials, Latourian concepts are indeed productive for analyzing visual material and visual practices at memorial sites.</p> ER -