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Hardback. What do photographs want? Can writing inflect photography (or vice versa) in such a way that neither medium takes precedence? Or are they in constant, inexorable battle with each other? Taking nine case studies from the French-speaking world, this book attempts to define the interaction between non-fictional written text and photographic image. Series: Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures. Num Pages: 256 pages, 8 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AJ; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 166 x 20. Weight in Grams: 536.
What do photographs want? Do they need any accompaniment in today’s image-saturated society? Can writing inflect photography (or vice versa) in such a way that neither medium takes precedence? Or are they in constant, inexorable battle with each other? Taking nine case studies from the 1990s French-speaking world (from France, North Africa and the Caribbean), this book attempts to define the interaction between non-fictional written text (caption, essay, fragment, poem) and photographic image. Having considered three categories of ‘intermediality’ between text and photography – the collaborative, the self-collaborative and the retrospective – the book concludes that the dimensions ... Read more
What do photographs want? Do they need any accompaniment in today’s image-saturated society? Can writing inflect photography (or vice versa) in such a way that neither medium takes precedence? Or are they in constant, inexorable battle with each other? Taking nine case studies from the 1990s French-speaking world (from France, North Africa and the Caribbean), this book attempts to define the interaction between non-fictional written text (caption, essay, fragment, poem) and photographic image. Having considered three categories of ‘intermediality’ between text and photography – the collaborative, the self-collaborative and the retrospective – the book concludes that the dimensions ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Series
Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846310522
SKU
V9781846310522
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Ref
99-50
About Andrew Stafford
Andy Stafford is Senior Lecturer in French at the University of Leeds and co-editor of 'The Modern Essay in French' (Peter Lang, 2005) among other publications.
Reviews for Photo-texts
Andy Stafford’s book is a welcome and attractive publication to the fast-growing field of intermediality studies, and an exciting enrichment of a series that opens new ways in the study of postcolonial Francophony.
Leonardo Journal
The notes and the bibliography alone merit the acquisition of this work. A richer source on the topic of photo and text is ... Read more
Leonardo Journal
The notes and the bibliography alone merit the acquisition of this work. A richer source on the topic of photo and text is ... Read more