Dr. Julin Everett examines portraiture as a language of resistance while also noting the fixed location of photographic practices within larger structures of power and knowledge. In her readings of studio portraits of Jews wearing the yellow star during the Second World War, Dr. Everett considers how identity formation can result in an authentic subject position for which the “I,” though its existence remains dependent on the presence of others, can firstly command the terms of its own coming into being and secondly, create a permanent reflection of the self. She reads a selection of these portraits for the manner in which they enter into the realm of language by relocating and then disturbing the yellow star as a signifier.

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