On writing with photography
On Writing with Photography explores what happens to texts-and images-when they are brought together, addressing a wide range of genres and media, including graphic novels, children's books, photo-essays, films, diaries, newspapers, and art installations. Together, these essays help explain how...
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Minneapolis London : University of Minnesota Press,
2013
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| Schlagworte: | Photography Literature and photography Electronic books Literatur Fotografie |
| Umfang: | 1 online resource (365 pages) |
| Zusammenfassung: | On Writing with Photography explores what happens to texts-and images-when they are brought together, addressing a wide range of genres and media, including graphic novels, children's books, photo-essays, films, diaries, newspapers, and art installations. Together, these essays help explain how writers and photographers-past and present-have served as powerful creative resources for each other. Chapter 1: From the Birth of Photography to the Death of the Author -- Chapter 2: Picturing the Great Unknown: John Wesley Powell and the Divergent Paths of Art and Science in the Representation of the Colorado River and Utah Canyonlands -- Chapter 3: "Watch How Dem Touris' Like Fe Look": Tourist Photography and Claude McKay's Jamaica -- Chapter 4: Captured Things: Man Ray's Object Photography -- Chapter 5: Photography's Linguistic Turn: On Werner Graeff's Here Comes the New Photographer! -- Chapter 6: The Power of What Is Not There: James Agee's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men -- Chapter 7: Playing Doll -- Chapter 8: Situating Images: Photography, Writing, and Cinema in the Work of Guy Debord -- Chapter 9: The Generation of Postmemory -- Chapter 10: Picturing the Specter of History: Zhang Ailing's Visual Practice -- Chapter 11: Sphinxes without Secrets: W. G. Sebald's Albums and the Aesthetics of Photographic Exchange -- Chapter 12: Nothing to Say: The War on Terror and the Mad Photography of Roland Barthes |
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| Beschreibung: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (365 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780816688845 0816688842 9780816677290 0816677298 |