Regarding Lost Time

Katja Haustein

• Introduction: Photography, Life, and the Work of Art; I: Marcel Proust; 1: Writing Life Visually; 2: Picturing the Self and the Other; 3: Proust’s Visual and Emotional Cavities; II: Walter Benjamin; 4: Photography, Memory, and Representation; 5: From Sight to Site: Benjamin’s Self-Portraits; 6: Eye and Affect; III: Roland Barthes; 7: From Life to Sign, or, ‘La vie comme œuvre’ 1; 8: Transgressing Egotism: Selfhood, Vision and Affect; Conclusion: Barthes, Benjamin, Proust ‘et la Photographie’