Phototextualities : intersections of photography and narrative / edited by Alex Hughes and Andrea Noble.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hughes, Alex, 1960-

Noble, Andrea.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Photography--Philosophy.

Photography.

Images, Photographic.

Literature and photography.

Physical Description:

xiv, 287 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [2003]

Summary:

How are photographs understood as narratives? In this book twenty-two original critical essays tackle this overarching question in a series of case studies moving chronologically across the history of photography from the 1840s to the twenty-first century. The contributors explore the intersections of photography with history, memory, autobiography, time, death, mapping, the discourse of Orientalism, digital technology, and representations of race and gender. The essays range in focus from the role of photographic images in the memorialization of the Holocaust, the Argentine Dirty War, and Japanese American internment camps through Man Rays classic image Noire et blanche and Nan Goldins The Ballad of Sexual Dependency to the function of family albums in nineteenth-century England and America.

Contents:

Part 1 Photography and Testimony

Chapter 1. Nazi Photographs in Post-Holocaust Art: Gender as an Idiom of Memorialization / Marianne Hirsch 19

Chapter 2. Narratives of Place: History and Memory and the Evidential Force of Photography in Work by Meridel Rubenstein and Joan Myers / Judith Fryer Davidov 41

Chapter 3. Still Moving Images: Photographs of the Disappeared in Films about the "Dirty War" in Argentina / Catherine Grant 63

Part 2 Photography and Narrative Commemoration

Chapter 4. Image

Memory

Text / Nancy Shawcross 89

Chapter 5. Nan Goldin: Bohemian Ballads / Chris Townsend 103

Part 3 Photography and Narratives of Difference

Chapter 6. (Con)text and Image: Reframing Man Ray's Noire et blanche / Wendy Grossman 119

Chapter 7. Gender in the Archive: Maria Zavala and the Drama of (not) Looking / Andrea Noble 136

Chapter 8. Humanism Reimagined: Spain as a Photographic Subject in W. Eugene Smith's "Spanish Village" (1951) and Cristina Garcia Rodero's Espana oculta (1989) / John D. Perivolaris 149

Part 4 Photography and Narratives of Identity

Chapter 9. Herve Guibert's Photographic Autobiography: Self-Portraiture in L'Image fantome / Alex Hughes 167

Chapter 10. Sophie Calle's Des histoires vraies: Irony and Beyond / Johnnie Gratton 182

Part 5 Phototextual Momentum

Chapter 11. "Neither an Odyssey nor a Testament": Drifting with Jacques Derrida and Catherine Malabou / Marie-Claire Barnet 201

Chapter 12. In the Spiral of Time: Memory, Temporality, and Subjectivity in Chris Marker's La Jetee / Jon Kear 218

Part 6 Phototextual Constructions

Chapter 13. Talking through the "Fotygraft Album" / Elizabeth Siegel 239

Chapter 14. The "Eyes of Affection" and Fashionable Femininity: Representations of Photography in Nineteenth-Century Magazines and Victorian "Society" Albums / Patrizia Di Bello 254.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-280) and index.

ISBN:

0826328253

OCLC:

51764282