Del 14 i serien Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures
Photo-texts
Contemporary French Writing of the Photographic Image
Inbunden, Engelska, 2010
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What do photographs want? Do they need any accompaniment in today’s image-saturated society? Can writing inflect photography (or vice versa) in such a way that neither medium takes precedence? Or are they in constant, inexorable battle with each other?Taking nine case studies from the 1990s French-speaking world (from France, North Africa and the Caribbean), this book attempts to define the interaction between non-fictional written text (caption, essay, fragment, poem) and photographic image.Having considered three categories of ‘intermediality’ between text and photography – the collaborative, the self-collaborative and the retrospective – the book concludes that the dimensions of their interaction are not simple and two-fold (visuality versus/alongside textuality), but threefold and therefore ‘complex’. Thus, the photo-text, as defined here, is concerned as much with orality – the demotic, the popular, the vernacular – as it is with visual and written culture. That text-image collaborations give space to the spoken, spectral traces of human discourse, suggests that the key element of the photo-text is its radical provisionality.
Produktinformation
- Utgivningsdatum2010-06-30
- Mått163 x 239 x undefined mm
- FormatInbunden
- SpråkEngelska
- SerieContemporary French and Francophone Cultures
- Antal sidor256
- FörlagLiverpool University Press
- ISBN9781846310522