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Record Nr.

UNINA9910476934603321

Autore

Schwärzler Monika

Titolo

At Face Value and Beyond : Photographic Constructions of Reality / Monika Schwärzler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2016

ISBN

9783839429549

3839429544

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Image ; 75

Disciplina

300

Soggetti

Photography; Visual Culture; Imagery; Visual Literacy; Media; Image; Visual Studies; Fine Arts

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter    1 Acknowledgment    7 Inhalt    8 Introductory Remarks    11 Conscious and Semi-Conscious States of the Camera    17 Dressed to Suffer and Redeem    33 Blocked View and Impeded Vision    55 Unedited Glamor    73 Lost in Pleasure    95 Death Can Wait    113 "The Beast"    137 Denigrative Views    151 The White Handbag    163 References    181

Sommario/riassunto

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 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.

»Monika Schwärzler [hat] aus dem divergenten Material eine analytisch stringente und zugleich gut lesbare Anleitung dafür geschaffen, wie man die einem ersten ›müden‹ Blick vertraut erscheinenden Bilder neu sehen kann: Media Literacy auf hohem Niveau.« Michael Freund, Fotogeschichte, 143 (2017)  Besprochen in: EIKON, 96 (2016)