Schmitt The Photographer as Autobiographer

1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-3-031-08855-1
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 294 Seiten

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Life Writing

This book explores hybrid memoirs, combining text and images, authored by photographers. It contextualizes this sub-category of life writing from a historical perspective within the overall context of life writing, before taking a structural and cognitive approach to the text/image relationship. While autobiographers use photographs primarily for their illustrative or referential function, photographers have a much more complex interaction with pictures in their autobiographical accounts. This book explores how the visual aspect of a memoir may drastically alter the reader’s response to the work, but also how, in other cases, the visual parts seem disconnected from the text or underused.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schmitt, Arnaud

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: The I of the Photographer: A Historical Perspective.- Chapter 3: A Structural Approach to Photographers’ Memoirs.- Chapter 4: A Cognitive Approach to Photographers’ Memoirs.- Chapter 5: Hold Still.- Chapter 6: Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Arnaud Schmitt is a Full Professor at the University of Bordeaux, France. He has published two books and multiple articles on autofiction and autobiography.