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

• Autore: Schwärzler Monika
• Pubblicazione: Bielefeld, Germany, : transcript Verlag, 2016; Bielefeld : , : transcript-Verlag, , [2016]; ©2016
• Edizione: 1. Aufl.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
• Disciplina: 300
• Soggetto topico: Fine Arts; Image; Imagery; Media; Visual Culture; Visual Literacy; Visual Studies; ART / Criticism
• Soggetto non controllato: Fine Arts; Image; Imagery; Media; Visual Culture; Visual Literacy; Visual Studies
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: At Face Value and Beyond
• ISBN: 3-8394-2954-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996308789903316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Image