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.

"To me, that's what makes autobiographies by photographers interesting: not their faith in photography but their suspicion of it, and the transfer of their suspicion of photography's representation onto autobiography's representation." (Charles Reeve, Biography, Vol. 46 (2), 2023)

"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