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Photography and Literature
Francois Brunet
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Description for Photography and Literature
Paperback. Examines photography's encounters with literature from the point of view of photography, providing a new way of understanding its interplay with literature and the printed page. The author begins by showing how photography's invention and its publication were shaped by written culture, both scientific and literary. Series: Exposures. Num Pages: 144 pages, 22 black & white illustrations, 74 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: AJG; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 192 x 17. Weight in Grams: 636.
Roland Barthes, one of photography's most influential critics, once described the trouble introduced by the advent of photography. Studies of literature and photography tend to assess the literary effects of photography, with literature seen as the older, broader, more established cultural form, and photography the new, alien upstart. "Photography and Literature" instead reverses the angle of vision to examine photography's encounters with literature from the point of view of photography, providing a new way of understanding its interplay with literature and the printed page. Francois Brunet begins by showing how photography's invention and its publication were shaped by written culture, ... Read more
Roland Barthes, one of photography's most influential critics, once described the trouble introduced by the advent of photography. Studies of literature and photography tend to assess the literary effects of photography, with literature seen as the older, broader, more established cultural form, and photography the new, alien upstart. "Photography and Literature" instead reverses the angle of vision to examine photography's encounters with literature from the point of view of photography, providing a new way of understanding its interplay with literature and the printed page. Francois Brunet begins by showing how photography's invention and its publication were shaped by written culture, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Reaktion Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Series
Exposures
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781861894298
SKU
V9781861894298
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99-15
About Francois Brunet
Francois Brunet is Professor of American Art and Literature at the University Paris Diderot - Paris 7, and is author of La Naissance de l'idee de photographie (2000), co-editor of Images in the West: Survey Photographs in French Collections, 1860-1880 (2007), and a regular contributor to journals, including Trans-atlantica, Etudes Photographiques and Aperture.
Reviews for Photography and Literature
Brunet's beautifully illustrated study shows how, starting with the British pioneer William Fox Talbot, photography has shed this aura of objectivity to become a medium of individual expression. Today, photography is the "new muse of literature" and it subverts the very reality its images were once thought to reflect with such veracity. The Guardian It is the scope and enthusiasm ... Read more