Picturing Ourselves. Photography & Autobiography.
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Copy number Shelfmark Shelf mark R004759 Ned. Fotomuseum $T RUGG.L 1997
TitlePicturing Ourselves. Photography & Autobiography.
Author
Photographer
Place of publicationChicago
Year of publication1997
Pagination286
Illustrationsb&w
DimensionsA4
MaterialTekstboek
Document TypeBook
ISBN0-226-731472
Bibliographic Notesindex, notes, pb;
SubjectAuthenticiteit, Autobiografische fotografie, Literatuur en fotografie, Filosofie en fotografie
Abstract
[from the intro]
"Over the past 2 decades, an essential question has been debated among scholars of autobiography: can we "touch the world" in writing? Can an autobiographical text refer to a subject outside the text? Does a self create its autobiography, or does an autobiography create its self? A parallel and intimately related discussion explores the relationship of photography to the world. Are photographs evidence of the existence of things or people in the world? Or are they constructions, manipulable and manipulative, masquerading as fact? The book explores the intersection of these two debates - the point at which photographs enter the autobiographical act."
Chapters :
1. Illumination and Obfuscation: Mark Twain's Photographic Autobiography ;
2. Photographing the Soul: August Strindberg ;
3. The Angel of History as Photographer: Walter Benjamin's "Berlin Childhood around 1900" ;
4. The Lost Photo Album of Christa Wolf's "Patterns of Childhood" ;
Conclusion / Notes / Index.
"Over the past 2 decades, an essential question has been debated among scholars of autobiography: can we "touch the world" in writing? Can an autobiographical text refer to a subject outside the text? Does a self create its autobiography, or does an autobiography create its self? A parallel and intimately related discussion explores the relationship of photography to the world. Are photographs evidence of the existence of things or people in the world? Or are they constructions, manipulable and manipulative, masquerading as fact? The book explores the intersection of these two debates - the point at which photographs enter the autobiographical act."
Chapters :
1. Illumination and Obfuscation: Mark Twain's Photographic Autobiography ;
2. Photographing the Soul: August Strindberg ;
3. The Angel of History as Photographer: Walter Benjamin's "Berlin Childhood around 1900" ;
4. The Lost Photo Album of Christa Wolf's "Patterns of Childhood" ;
Conclusion / Notes / Index.
| Copy number | R004759 |
| Institution name | |
| Shelf mark | $T RUGG.L 1997 |