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François Brunet - Photography and Literature, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2009

Photography and Literature

Av François Brunet

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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.François Brunet begins by showing how photography’s invention and its publication were shaped by written culture, both scientific and literary. In turn he examines its early and durable incarnation in the book format, the ongoing and often repetitive ‘discovery’ of photography by writers, and, finally, how, in the twentieth century, photography and literature are seen to trade tools and even merge formats. He also focuses on writings by photo­g­raphers, from William Henry Fox Talbot’s groundbreaking exploration of photography in The Pencil of Nature of the 1840s, to Raymond Depardon's correspondence or Sophie Calle’s projects with Jean Baudrillard and Paul Auster. Ultimately, Brunet argues that the histories of photography and literature since 1840 have been drawing closer together, and that their convergence has provided recent writing with a new ‘photo-textual’ genre.Offering a wealth of examples from autobiography, manifestos and fiction, and a fascinating variety of images from the mid-­nineteenth century to the twenty-first, Photography and Literature will be of interest to anyone passionate about the historic relationship of text and image.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2009-06-01
  • Mått: 220 x 190 x undefined mm
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Serie: Exposures
  • Antal sidor: 176
  • Förlag: Reaktion Books
  • ISBN: 9781861894298
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François Brunet is Professor of American Art and Literature at the University Paris Diderot - Paris 7, and is author of La Naissance de l'idée 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 Trans­atlantica, Etudes Photographiques and Aperture.

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Brunets 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 thenew muse of literatureand it subverts the very reality its images were once thought to reflect with such veracity. - The GuardianIt is the scope and enthusiasm with which Photography and Literature connects the literary impulse with photographys vision of the world that makes this book a welcome addition. - Source magazineIt is extremely rare to discover a book that has such a profound knowledge of the Continental as well as the Anglo-Saxon traditions and history and that is so open to their respective cultures and sensibilities . . . Brunets book is innovative and insightful, and it helps clear the ground for a new approach of a much-debated issue. One can only hope that it will be widely read and discussed, both inside the field of photography studies and outside it, in the broader field of intermediality studies, and become rapidly a modern classic. - History of PhotographyThis sumptuously illustrated volume . . . examines the shifting relationship between literature and photography from the latters invention in 1939 up to the present . . . a fascinating overview of the prolonged cultural encounters between visual and verbal texts and has the value of guiding the reader towards more specialized studies of this crucially important subject. - Modern Language ReviewAs Brunet skillfully negotiates more than 150 years of photographic history, he offers a coherent argument for the emergence of photography as a kind of writing, with possibilities for narrative and fiction that exceed its promise to capture the world as it is. - The Wilson QuarterlyThere is much to praise in Fran&#231ois Brunets recent book, Photography and Literature, not least being the intellectual courage and verve of the undertaking itself. Its a daring book. The topic, immense and inchoate, at once invites and defies investigation . . . Brunets compelling book puts such challenging thoughts into motion, a handsome and significant achievement. - Transatlanticaan excellent and thought-provoking read. - Metapsycology

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