At Face Value and Beyond Photographic Constructions of Reality Monika Schwärzler

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schwärzler, Monika, Author.

Contributor:

Knowledge Unlatched - KU Select 2017: Backlist Collection, Funder.

Series:

Image

Image 75

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Photography; Visual Culture; Imagery; Visual Literacy; Media; Image; Visual Studies; Fine Arts;.

Local Subjects:

Photography; Visual Culture; Imagery; Visual Literacy; Media; Image; Visual Studies; Fine Arts;.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2016

Bielefeld transcript Verlag, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

Monika Schwärzler-Brodesser, Doctorate in Philosophy from the University of Vienna. Former head of the Department of Art with an Emphasis in Visual Culture at Webster Vienna Private University. Research areas: art and media theory, photography, visual culture.

Summary:

How to account for the peculiar attraction of certain photos? How to deal with the specific use of images in particular contexts? Monika Schwärzler presents a variety of photographic case studies exploring visual phenomena from the point of view of media analysis as well as from sociological, aesthetic, and psychoanalytic perspectives. The topics range from a new reading of Thomas Struth's street photographs to CERN photos with their charged rhetoric, from the assault of photographic close-ups to speculations on an anonymous slide collection featuring a woman with an ever-present white handbag. The book is intended for an audience receptive to the analytical appeal of images, prepared to go beyond what can be taken at face value.

»Monika Schwärzler [hat] aus dem divergenten Material eine analytisch stringente und zugleich gut lesbare Anleitung dafür geschaffen, wie man die einem ersten ›müden‹ Blick vertraut erscheinenden Bilder neu sehen kann: Media Literacy auf hohem Niveau.« Michael Freund, Fotogeschichte, 143 (2017) Besprochen in: EIKON, 96 (2016)

Contents:

Frontmatter 1 Acknowledgment 7 Inhalt 8 Introductory Remarks 11 Conscious and Semi-Conscious States of the Camera 17 Dressed to Suffer and Redeem 33 Blocked View and Impeded Vision 55 Unedited Glamor 73 Lost in Pleasure 95 Death Can Wait 113 "The Beast" 137 Denigrative Views 151 The White Handbag 163 References 181

Notes:

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Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed December 19 2025)

ISBN:

9783839429549

3839429544

OCLC:

1013957864

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access