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Light In The Dark Room: Photography And Loss
Jay Prosser
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Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages, 18ill. BIC Classification: AJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 148 x 12. Weight in Grams: 318.
When we look at a photograph we see a moment that is no more. Photographs place reality into the past tense, representing not memory but memory’s loss. They are not conduits for the return of memory, but memento mori: reminders of the fact of death itself. And it is in this, Jay Prosser tells us, that we find the gift of photography. Engaging the photographic reflections of figures as different as Roland Barthes and Claude Lévi-Strauss, Gordon Parks and Elizabeth Bishop, Light in the Dark Room offers a vision of photography as realization of loss—and a revelation of how photographs ... Read more
When we look at a photograph we see a moment that is no more. Photographs place reality into the past tense, representing not memory but memory’s loss. They are not conduits for the return of memory, but memento mori: reminders of the fact of death itself. And it is in this, Jay Prosser tells us, that we find the gift of photography. Engaging the photographic reflections of figures as different as Roland Barthes and Claude Lévi-Strauss, Gordon Parks and Elizabeth Bishop, Light in the Dark Room offers a vision of photography as realization of loss—and a revelation of how photographs ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
248
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
Weight
318g
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816644841
SKU
V9780816644841
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About Jay Prosser
Jay Prosser is reader in the humanities in the School of English at the University of Leeds.
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