The Photographer as Autobiographer E-Book

Arnaud Schmitt

• Herausgeber: Springer International Publishing
• Kategorie: Poesie und Drama
• Serie: Palgrave Studies in Life Writing
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2022

Beschreibung

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.