The Photographer as Autobiographer

1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-3-031-08857-5
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 294 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 396 g

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

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Fotografie
• Interdisziplinäres Bibliothekswesen, Informationswissenschaften Buchgeschichte, Bibliotheksgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Geschichtspolitik, Erinnerungskultur

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.