Karin Becker

Professor vid Tema Q (Dept. of Culture Studies), Linköpings universitet, med ansvar för Gestaltningsprocesser i kultur och medier (Creative Processes in Culture and Media)

Professor vid Institutionen för Journalistik, medier och kommunikation (JMK), Stockholms universitet

Ph.D. Indiana University, 1977, med avhandlingen Dorothea Lange and the Documentary Tradition
(Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1980).

Research areas

Photography and representation in public, institutional and private settings, photojournalism histories and practices, visual culture, visual ethnography

Publications

Main books:

Becker, Karin (1980). Dorothea Lange and the Documentary Tradition. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press.

Becker, Karin, Jan Ekecrantz, Eva-Lotta Frid & Tom Olsson (eds.) (1996) Medierummet, Stock¬holm: Carlssons.

Becker, Karin, Jan Ekecrantz & Tom Olsson (eds.) (2000). Picturing Politics. Visual and textual formations of modernity in the Swedish press. Stockholm: Stockholm Univerisity, JMK Skriftserien 2000:1.

Becker, Karin, Erling Bjurström, Johan Fornäs & Hillevi Ganetz (red.) (2001). Passager. Medier och kultur i ett köpcentrum. Stockholm: Nya Doxa.

Becker, Karin, Erling Bjurström, Johan Fornäs & Hillevi Ganetz, (red.) (2002) Medier och människor i konsumtionsrummet. Nora: Nya Doxa.

Horwitz, Richard P., with photographs by Karin Becker (1985). The Strip: An American Place. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

Articles, a selection

Becker, Karin (1985). Forming a Profession: Ethical Implications of Photojournalistic Practice on German Picture Magazines, 1926-1933, Studies in Visual Communication 11/2: 44-60.

Becker, Karin (1991). To Control Our Image: Photojournalists and New Technology, Media, Culture and Society 13/3: 375-91.

Becker, Karin (1992). Photojournalism and the Tabloid Press. In Peter Dahlgren and Colin Sparks (ed.), Journalism and Popular Culture. London: Sage. Pages 131-53.

Becker, Karin (1992). Picturing Our Past. An Archive Constructs a National Culture, Journal of American Folklore

Becker, Karin (1993). The Photographic Archive and the Construction of National Culture, Ethnologia Scandinavica 23: 114-30.

Becker, Karin (1993).The Aesthetics of Amateur Photography. Adomus (arbetsgrupp för dokumentär fotografi vid svenska museer) 15: 19-24.

Becker, Karin (1993). Det skarpa perspektivet--könsfrågan i dokumentärfotografin. Kvinnovetenskaplig tidskrift, nr. 3-4: 17-35.

Becker, Karin (1995). Medierna och de rituella processerna. I Barbro Klein (red.) Gatan är vår! Ritualer på offentliga platser. Stockholm: Carlssons förlag. Sid. 241-273.

Becker, Karin (1995). Media and The Ritual Process, Media, Culture & Society. 17: 629-646.

Becker, Karin (1996). Pictures in the Press: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. I Ulla Carlsson (red.) Medierna i samhället. Igår, idag, imorgon. Göteborg: Nordicom. (reprinted in Nordicom Review, 2/96).

Becker, Karin (1997). Das Bildarchiv und die Konstruktion von Kultur, Zeitschrift für Volkskunde, 93. Jahrgang (1997/2): 235-253.

Becker, Karin (1998). The Diana Debate: Ritual. Screen, vol. 39, No. 3 (Autumn): 289-293.

Becker, Karin (1998). Bilden i den visuella kulturen/ The Image and Visual Culture, in Carl Heideken (ed.), Xposeptember Stockholm Fotofestival 1998 . Stockholm: Xposeptember. Pages 17-40.

Becker, Karin (2000). Picturing a Field: Relationships between visual culture and photographic practice in a fieldwork setting, in Pertti Anttonen (ed.), Folklore, Heritage Politics, and Ethnic Diversity: A Festschrift for Barbro Klein. Botkyrka, Sweden: Multicultural Centre.

Becker, Karin (2001). Bara titta – Solna Centrum som visuell arena, in Becker, Erling Bjurström, Johan Fornäs, Hillevi Ganetz, (eds.) Passager. Medier och kultur i ett köpcentrum. Nora: Nya Doxa,. Pages 179-208.

Becker, Karin (2001). Fotografen och flanören, in Becker, Erling Bjurström, Johan Fornäs, Hillevi Ganetz (eds.) Passager. Medier och kultur i ett köpcentrum. Nora: Nya Doxa. Pages 239-265.

Becker. Karin (2001). Creative culture as life form, in Folke Snickars (ed.), Culture, Society and Market, Report frojm the Swedish national Council for Cultural Affairs 2001:6. Stockholm: Riksbankens jubileumsfond. Pages 79-90.

Becker, Karin (2002). Performing Knowledge: Kunskap genom gestaltning, i Karin Becker & Kenneth Karlsson (red.), Gränssnitt: Fyra dagar om gestaltning och vetande, Rapport #3, Konstfack, Institutionen för bildpedagogik. Pages 12-17.

Becker, Karin (2002) Just Looking? Displays of Power in a Shopping Center, in Raoul Granqvist (ed.) Power and Sensuality. Umeå.

Becker, Karin (2002) Photography as a medium, in Neil J. Smelser and Paul B Baltes (eds.) International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences Amsterdam: Pergamon, Elsevier Science.

Becker, Karin (2002) Fotografier. Lagrade bildminnen, i Karin Becker, Erling Bjurström, Johan Fornäs & Hillevi Ganetz Medier och människor i konsumtionsrummet. Nora: Nya Doxa.

Becker, Karin (2004) Vardagsfotografin som social praktik, i Patrik Aspers, Paul Fuehrer & Árni Sverrisson (eds.), Bild och samhälle. Lund: Studentlitteratur.

Becker, Karin (2004) Att synliggöra fältet. Fotografi och reflexiv etnografi, i Lena Gemzöe, Nutida etnografi. Reflektioner från mediekonsumtionens fält, Nora: Nya Doxa.

Becker, Karin (2004) Where is Visual Culture in Contemporary Theories of Media and Communication? Nordicom Review 25/1-2. Pages 149-158.

Becker, Karin (2004) Perspectives for the study of visual culture, Nordisk pedagogik, Special issue: Visual culture in Education 24/4. Pages 242-249.

Becker, Karin & Hanno Hardt (1981). The Eyes of the Proletariat: The Worker-Photography Movement in Weimar Germany, Studies in Visual Communication 7/3: 46-57.

Becker, Karin & Richard P. Horwitz (1981). Mac's and Mil's. In Howard S. Becker (ed.), Exploring Society Photographically. Evanston: Block Gallery and University of Chicago Press. Pages 60-67.

Becker, Karin, & Barbro Klein (1991). A Botanical U.N.: Gardening in a Multiethnic Swedish Town, The World and I 6/5: 620-31.

Becker, Karin & Barbro Klein (2003). ”Med svenska ögon: Ett mångkulturellt odlingsområde 1990 och 2000,” Stadens odlare, Stockholm: Nordiska museet.

Klein, Barbro, med fotografier av Karin Becker. (1992) Folkkonst i industrisamhällets bakgårdar och förgårdar. I Kulturhuset (red.), Folkkonsten, All Tradition är Förändring. Stockholm: Carlssons. Sid.128-41.

Klein, Barbro, with photographs by Karin Becker (1993). Fences, Fertilizers and Foreigners: Moral Dilemmas in the Swedish Cultural Landscape, Journal of Folklore Research, 30: 45-60.

Klein, Barbro with photographs by Karin Becker (1994). Folk Art in the Backyards and Front Yards of the Industrial World. In B. Klein and M. Widbom (ed.), Swedish Folk Art: All Tradition is Change. New York: Harry Abrams. Pages 165-74.



Research-related photographic exhibits

Becker, Karin. 1981 Group exhibition, Exploring Society Photographically, Block Gallery, Evanston, Illinois, USA. Photographs from The Strip: An American Place

Becker, Karin. 1985 Group exhibition, München Fotosymposium, Lenbach Haus, Münich, Tyskland. Photographs from The Strip: An American Place.

Becker, Karin. 2004 Group exhibition, Kolonilotter, Skansen, Stockholm. Photographs from allotments gardens in Swedish multicultural neighborhoods.

Addresses, telephone and email:

Tema Q, Linköping universitet, S-601 74 Norrköping

+46 (0) 11 363433

karbe@isak.liu.se

JMK, Stockholms uiniversitet, Box 27861, S-11593Stockholm

+46 (0) 8 161067

becker@jmk.su.se

Sidansvarig: monica.bodker-pedersen@liu.se
Senast uppdaterad: 2011-05-19