The Photographer as Autobiographer

Arnaud Schmitt (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

IX, 294 Seiten

2022 | 1st ed. 2022
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-031-08854-4 (ISBN)

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This book explores hybrid memoirs, combining text and images, authored by photographers. It contextualizes this sub-category of life writing from a historical perspective within the overall context of life writing, before taking a structural and cognitive approach to the text/image relationship. While autobiographers use photographs primarily for their illustrative or referential function, photographers have a much more complex interaction with pictures in their autobiographical accounts. This book explores how the visual aspect of a memoir may drastically alter the reader's response to the work, but also how, in other cases, the visual parts seem disconnected from the text or underused.

Arnaud Schmitt is a Full Professor at the University of Bordeaux, France. He has published two books and multiple articles on autofiction and autobiography.

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: The I of the Photographer: A Historical Perspective.- Chapter 3: A Structural Approach to Photographers' Memoirs.- Chapter 4: A Cognitive Approach to Photographers' Memoirs.- Chapter 5: Hold Still.- Chapter 6: Conclusion.

"This book's exploration of how literary life writing and artistically composed, strategically positioned images combine to intensify the representation and impact of photographers' life stories is a timely intervention into this captivating hybrid genre, and a valuable contribution to life writing studies ... . Schmitt's wide-ranging, interdisciplinary insights, which collectively initiate critical discussions on the diversity and complexity of interchanges among memoirist, text, visual image, and reader, constitute a firm platform for more specialised analyses of creatively illustrated life narratives." (Merril Howie, Life Writing, June 19, 2023)

Erscheinungsdatum	13.09.2022
Reihe/Serie	Palgrave Studies in Life Writing
Zusatzinfo	IX, 294 p. 66 illus., 61 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	524 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Fotokunst
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
Schlagworte	Autobiography • Hold Still • Hybrid autobiography • Life Writing • Literature and Cultural Studies • Memoir • Sally Mann • Visual life writing
ISBN-10	3-031-08854-9 / 3031088549
ISBN-13	978-3-031-08854-4 / 9783031088544
Zustand	Neuware