Photographic literacy : cameras in the hands of Russian authors / Katherine M.H. Reischl.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reischl, Katherine M. H., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature and photography--Russia--History--20th century.

Literature and photography.

Literature and photography--Soviet Union--History.

Russian literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Russian literature.

Photography in literature.

History.

Russia.

Soviet Union.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

xvi, 300 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2018.

Summary:

"A primer in photographic literacy, focused on the sites of contact between photography and literary writing over roughly seventy years, this book traces the visual consciousness of modern Russian literature in the twentieth century as captured through the lens of the Russian author-photographer"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : chasing Pushkin's photograph

Tolstoy in the age of his technological reproducibility

The diffusion of domesticated photography : Leonid Andreev, Vasily Rozanov, and Maximillian Voloshin

Micro-geography, macro-world : Mikhail Prishvin

Look left, young man! The international exchange of photo-narratives

Conclusion : Nabokov, Solzhenitsyn, and the anxiety of photographic authorship.

Notes:

"This publication is made possible in part from the Barr Ferree Foundation Fund for Publications, Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Reischl, Katherine M.H. Photographic literacy.

ISBN:

9781501724367

1501724363

OCLC:

1028904684