On Writing with Photography [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910779538703321
• Autore: Weissberg Liliane
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Minnesota, : University of Minnesota Press, 2013
• ISBN: 0-8166-8884-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (365 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): BeckmanKaren
• Disciplina: 809.9/3357; 809.93357
• Soggetti: Literature and photography; Literature; Photography in literature; Photography; Languages & Literatures; Literature - General
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1: From the Birth of Photography to the Death of the Author; Chapter 2: Picturing the Great Unknown: John Wesley Powell and the Divergent Paths of Art and Science in the Representation of the Colorado River and Utah Canyonlands; Chapter 3: "Watch How Dem Touris' Like Fe Look": Tourist Photography and Claude McKay's Jamaica; Chapter 4: Captured Things: Man Ray's Object Photography; Chapter 5: Photography's Linguistic Turn: On Werner Graeff's Here Comes the New Photographer!; Chapter 6: The Power of What Is Not There: James Agee's Let Us Now Praise Famous MenChapter 7: Playing Doll; Chapter 8: Situating Images: Photography, Writing, and Cinema in the Work of Guy Debord; Chapter 9: The Generation of Postmemory; Chapter 10: Picturing the Specter of History: Zhang Ailing's Visual Practice; Chapter 11: Sphinxes without Secrets: W. G. Sebald's Albums and the Aesthetics of Photographic Exchange; Chapter 12: Nothing to Say: The War on Terror and the Mad Photography of Roland Barthes; Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; XY; Z
• Sommario/riassunto: On Writing with Photography explores what happens to texts-and images-when they are brought together, addressing a wide range of genres and media, including graphic novels, children's books, photo-essays, films, diaries, newspapers, and art installations. Together, these essays help explain how writers and photographers-past and present-have served as powerful creative resources for each other.