Photo-texts : contemporary French writing of the photographic image / Andy Stafford.
What do photographs want? Do they need any accompaniment in today's imagesaturated 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 Other? --
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Liverpool :
Liverpool University Press,
2010.
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| Series: | Contemporary French and francophone cultures ;
14. |
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| Summary: | What do photographs want? Do they need any accompaniment in today's imagesaturated 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 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 of their interaction are not simple and twofold (Visuality versus/alongside textuality), but threefold and therefore ̀complex' Thus, the photo-text, as defined here, is concerned as much with orality-the demotic, the popular, the vernacular-as it is with visual and written culture, the way in which text-image collaborations give space to the spoken, spectral traces of human discourse suggests that the key element of the photo-text is its radical provisionality. --Book Jacket. |
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| Physical Description: | ix, 246 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 224-238) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781846310522 (hbk.) 1846310520 (hbk.) |