Literary modernism and photography / edited by Paul Hansom.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hansom, Paul.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Photography--Philosophy.

Photography.

Literature and photography.

Photography in literature.

Modernism (Literature).

Physical Description:

xvii, 278 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2002.

Summary:

Considers the complex links between narrative form and photographic representation in the Anglo-American modernist period.

Contents:

1. City of Fiction, City of Fact: The Intersection of Literary and Sociological Discourses / Luca Prono 3

2. The Limits of Modernism: Walker Evans and James Agee's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men / Mark Durden 25

3. Focus Left: Modernist Angst and the Proletarian Camera / Janet Galligani Casey 31

4. You Have Seen Their Faces, of Course: The American South as Modernist Space / Paul Hansom 53

5. Counterpoints of View: The American Photo-Text, 1935-1948 / Nancy M. Shawcross 71

6. Vanessa Bell's Photographs: Modernism, the Maternal, and the Erotic / Maggie Humm 93

7. The Daybooks of Edward Weston: When Words Do Not Fail / Celine Choi 107

8. The Image in Crisis: Postromantic Affairs and the Sublimation of Commodity Culture in Alfred Stieglitz and William Carlos Williams / Tom Lavazzi 121

9. Looking for Shelter: [Re]covering the Subject in [an Other] Art / Vincent Hausmann 151

10. Vision and Inversion in Nightwood / Jean Gallagher 177

11. Progress Begets Nostalgia: Jim Burden's Conflicted Vision in My Antonia / Laura Barrett 199

12. The "Photographic Fix": Imaging the Modern/Postmodern Sensibilities / Nicholas Zurbrugg 219

13. "Cell" My Last Words Everywhere: Filmic Fiction in Leni Riefenstahl, Jean Genet, and William S. Burroughs / Davis Schneiderman 235

14. Picturing the End of Modernism?: The Los Angeles Documentary Project, The Nowhere City, and "The Aleph" / Mark Rice 251.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0275971309

OCLC:

49327048