The truth in photography / edited by Michael Naas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Naas, Michael, Author.

Contributor:

Naas, Michael, editor.

Series:

Oxford Literary Review Special Issues ; 32

The Oxford Literary Review ; Volume 32, Number 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Photography--Philosophy.

Photography.

Truth.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (146 pages).

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2010.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

From the very invention of photography in the early part of the nineteenth century right up through the most recent developments in photography through digital technology, theorists have never stopped asking whether there is in fact any truth at all in photography. The essays collected in this volume consider this and related questions (for example, the relationship between photography and representation, history, time, narrative, memory, mourning, and so on) through the works of Walter Benjamin, Hélène Cixous, and Jacques Derrida, among others. The volume opens with a previously untranslated essay by Derrida on photography, entitled, precisely, Aletheia (Truth), and it concludes with ‘Melville’s Couvade’, an original work of fiction on the theme of photography by David Farrell Krell.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

The Truth in Photography

Snapshot

Articles

Aletheia

What, in truth, is Photography? Notes after Kracauer

Primal Phenomena and Photography

Dark Room Readings: Scenes of Maternal Photography

Fiction

Melville’s Couvade

Book Reviews

Michael Syrotinski, Deconstruction and the Postcolonial

Judeities, ed. Bettina Bergo, Joseph Cohen, Raphael Zagury-Orly

Asja Szafraniec, Beckett, Derrida, and the Event of Literature

Contributors

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4744-7123-4

OCLC:

1306540909