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On writing with photography / Karen Beckman and Liliane Weissberg, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Literature and photography.
- Photography.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (365 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- On Writing with Photography explores what happens to texts-and images-when they are brought together, addressing a wide range of genres and media, including graphic novels, children's books, photo-essays, films, diaries, newspapers, and art installations. Together, these essays help explain how writers and photographers-past and present-have served as powerful creative resources for each other.
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1: From the Birth of Photography to the Death of the Author; Chapter 2: Picturing the Great Unknown: John Wesley Powell and the Divergent Paths of Art and Science in the Representation of the Colorado River and Utah Canyonlands; Chapter 3: "Watch How Dem Touris' Like Fe Look": Tourist Photography and Claude McKay's Jamaica; Chapter 4: Captured Things: Man Ray's Object Photography; Chapter 5: Photography's Linguistic Turn: On Werner Graeff's Here Comes the New Photographer!
- Chapter 6: The Power of What Is Not There: James Agee's Let Us Now Praise Famous MenChapter 7: Playing Doll; Chapter 8: Situating Images: Photography, Writing, and Cinema in the Work of Guy Debord; Chapter 9: The Generation of Postmemory; Chapter 10: Picturing the Specter of History: Zhang Ailing's Visual Practice; Chapter 11: Sphinxes without Secrets: W. G. Sebald's Albums and the Aesthetics of Photographic Exchange; Chapter 12: Nothing to Say: The War on Terror and the Mad Photography of Roland Barthes; Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W
- XY; Z
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8166-8884-2
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