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Autore |
Schwärzler Monika |
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Titolo |
At Face Value and Beyond : Photographic Constructions of Reality / / Monika Schwärzler |
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Bielefeld, Germany, : transcript Verlag, 2016 |
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Bielefeld : , : transcript-Verlag, , [2016] |
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©2016 |
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[1. Aufl.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Fine Arts |
Image |
Imagery |
Media |
Visual Culture |
Visual Literacy |
Visual Studies |
ART / Criticism |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- Acknowledgment -- Inhalt -- Introductory Remarks -- Conscious and Semi-Conscious States of the Camera -- Dressed to Suffer and Redeem -- Blocked View and Impeded Vision -- Unedited Glamor -- Lost in Pleasure -- Death Can Wait -- "The Beast" -- Denigrative Views -- The White Handbag -- References |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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How to account for the peculiar attraction of certain photos? How to deal with the specific use of images in particular contexts? Monika Schwärzler presents a variety of photographic case studies exploring visual phenomena from the point of view of media analysis as well as from sociological, aesthetic, and psychoanalytic perspectives. The topics range from a new reading of Thomas Struth's street photographs to CERN photos with their charged rhetoric, from the assault of |
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photographic close-ups to speculations on an anonymous slide collection featuring a woman with an ever-present white handbag. The book is intended for an audience receptive to the analytical appeal of images, prepared to go beyond what can be taken at face value. |
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