Literature and Photography. Interactions 1840-1990. A critical anthology.

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Literature greeted photography warmly when the daguerreotype was invented in 1839, and they have had a close relationship ever since. This remarkable book traces comprehensively for the first time the give and take between these sister arts by gathering writings about photography and photographs by and of writers from England, Europe, and the United States over the last century and a half. Included are selections by avid amateur photographers (such as Lewis Carroll, Emile Zola, August Strindberg, George Bernard Shaw, Eudora Welty, and Jack London, among numerous others), professional photographers writing about literary matters (Nadar on Balzac, Stieglitz on Stein, Man Ray on Hemingway), and collaborators explaining their work (Henry James and Coburn, Steinbeck and Capa, Capote and Avedon). Most selections are illustrated with photographs and documented by notes which help map this rich field.
Because academic boundaries have long separated literature and photography, Europe and America, and the nineteenth from the twentieth centuries, even the most knowledgeable readers will find surprises here: photos by W. H. Auden, stories about photographers by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Conan Doyle (both enthusiastic photographers), remarks by and portraits of Mark Twain, who also used photographs as illustrations, and an unpublished essay about family photographs by John Updike. But Jane Rabb does not neglect the familiar. Hawthorne's daguerreotypist, the Virginia Woolf - Julia Margaret Cameron connection, the Evans and Agee partnership, the dual achievements of Wright Morris, and Howard Nemerov mourning his sister Diane Arbus are also included. From Edgar Allan Poe's "The Daguerreotype" to John Baldessari's "Baudelaire Meets Poe," Rabb has gathered the first and last words about photographs and photography.
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PREFACE
INTRODUCTION: NOTES TOWARD A HISTORY OF LITERATURE AND PHOTOGRAPHY
PART ONE: 1840-1865
1. EDGAR ALLAN POE, "The Daguerreotype," 1840 ;
2. NADAR, "Balzac and the Daguerreotype," from "Quand j'etais photographe", c. 1899 ;
3. CHAMPFLEURY, "The Legend of the Daguerreotypist," 1863 ;
4. RALPH WALDO EMERSON AND THOMAS CARLYLE, from Correspondence, April 16-July 17, 1846 ;
5. WALT WHITMAN, "Visit to Plumbe's Gallery," July 2, 1846 ;
6. GERARD DE NERVAL, from "Voyage en Orient", 1846-47, 1851 ;
7. GUSTAVE FLAUBERT AND MAXIME Du CAMP, from "Writings about their Middle East trip, 1849-50" ;
8. NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, from "The House of the Seven Gables", 1851 ;
9. ADELE HUGO, from "Le Journal", November 22, 1852-November 16, 1853 ;
10. BRASSAI, "Carroll the Photographer", 1975 ;
11. HENRY PEACH ROBINSON, Combination Prints, 1858-68 ;
12. CHARLES BAUDELAIRE, from "The Salon of 1859," 1859 ;
PART TWO: 1865-1890
13. GEORGE SAND, Preface to "The Right to Fly" by Nadar, 1865 ;
14. ALEXANDRE DUMAS pere, from "Across Hungary," 1866 ;
15. W.S.GILBERT, "A Tale of a Dry Plate," [c. 1860-70,] 1890 ;
16. VIRGINIA WOOLF, "Julia Margaret Cameron," 1926 ;
17. EMILE ZOLA, from "The Rush for the Spoil", 1871 ;
18. LEO TOLSTOY, from "Anna Karenina", 1875-77 ;
19. COUNT PHILIPPE-AUGUSTE DE VILLIERS DE L'ISLE-ADAM, "Snapshots of World History" [1878], from "L'Eve future" [Tomorrow's Eve], 1880-85 ;
20. ARTHUR RIMBAUD, from Letters from Aden and Harar, 1881-83 ;
21. ANTON CHEKHOV, "The Album," 1884 ;
22. JOHN RUSKIN, from "The Works of John Ruskin, 1845-89" ;
23. SAMUEL BUTLER, from "The Note-Books", [1888-93], 1912 ;
PART THREE: 1890-1915
24. H. G. WELLS, "The Art of Being Photographed," 1893 ;
25. BRET HARTE, from "The Letters of Bret Harte", 1896-97 ;
26. J. M. SYNGE, from "The Aran Islands" [1898], 1907 ;
27. AUGUST STRINDBERG, "Photography and Philosophy," 1903 ;
28. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, "Evans — An Appreciation," 1903 ;
29. JACK LONDON, "How Jack London Got In and Out of Jail in Japan," 1904 ;
30. MARK TWAIN, from Writings, 1866-1906 ;
31. HENRY ADAMS AND MARIAN HOOPER ADAMS, from Letters, 1872-1907 ;
32. HENRY JAMES, from Preface to "The Golden Bowl", 1909, and ALVIN LANGDON COBURN, from "Illustrating Henry James," 1953/1966 ;
33. HILAIRE BELLOC, "The Portrait of a Child," 1910 ;
34. LEONID ANDREYEV, from Letters to his Mother from Abroad, 1910-14 ;
35. ALFRED STIEGLITZ, "Camera Work Introduces Gertrude Stein to America," [1912], 1946-47, and GERTRUDE STEIN, "Stieglitz," 1934 ;
36. THEODORE DREISER, from The "Genius," 1915 ;
37. GIOVANNI VERGA, from "Lettere d'Amore", 1899-1916 ;
38. EZRA POUND, "Vortographs and Paintings by Alvin Langdon Coburn," 1917 ;
39. THOMAS HARDY, "The Photograph," 1917 ;
40. MARCEL PROUST, from "The Guermantes Way", 1920, from "Remembrance of Things Past", 1913-28 ;
41. F. HOLLAND DAY AND AMY LOWELL, from Correspondence, March 1941 ;
42. PAUL STRAND, Letter to Sherwood Anderson, July 20, 1920 ;
43. SHERWOOD ANDERSON, "Alfred Stieglitz," 1922 ;
44. HART CRANE, Letter to Alfred Stieglitz, April 15, 1923 ;
45. ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, from The Wanderings of a Spiritualist, 1922 ;
46. VLADIMIR MAYAKOVSKY, from Pro Eto, 1923 ;
47. THOMAS MANN, from "The Magic Mountain", 1924 ;
48. VLADIMIR NABOKOV, "THE SNAPSHOT," 1927/1971 ;
49. ANDRÉ BRETON, from "Nadja", 1928 ;
50. CARL SANDBURG, from Preface to Steichen the Photographer, 1929 ;
51. E. M. FORSTER, "Sinclair Lewis," 1929 ;
52. MAN RAY, "American and English Writers," from "Self Portrait", 1963 ;
53. ANSEL ADAMS AND MARY AUSTIN, from "Writings", 1929 and 1985 (some unpublished) ;
54. EDWARD WESTON, "Lawrence in Mexico . . ," I932 ;
55. HENRY MILLER, from Tropic of Cancer, 1934 ;
56. LANGSTON HUGHES, "Pictures More Than Pictures: The Work of Manuel Bravo and Carder-Bresson," 1935 ;
57. Louis ARAGON, "John Heartfield and Revolutionary Beauty," 1935 ;
58. WILLIAM FAULKNER, from Absalom, Absalom!, 1936 ;
59. ERSKINE CALDWELL, from "With All My Might", 1987, and MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE, from Portrait of Myself, 1963 ;
60. WALKER EVANS, "James Agee in 1936," 1960 ;
61. W. H. AUDEN, from Letters from Iceland by W. H. Auden and Louis MacNeice, 1937 ;
62. WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, "Sermon with a Camera," 1938 ;
63. GISELE FREUND, "James Joyce," from The World in My Camera [1938-39], 1974 ;
PART FIVE: 1940-1965
64. GORDON PARKS, from A Choice of Weapons, 1966 ;
65. PABLO NERUDA, "Tina Modotti Is Dead," 1942 ;
66. BERTOLT BRECHT, Photograms from Kriegsfibel [1933-45], 1955 ;
67. JAMES AGEE, from Introduction [1946] to A Way of Seeing by Helen Levitt, 1965 ;
68. LÁSZLÓ MOHOLY-NAGY, "James Joyce," from Vision in Motion, 1947 ;
69. JOHN STEINBECK AND ROBERT CAPA, from A Russian Journal, 1948 ;
70. WRIGHT MORRIS, from "Photography in My Life," 1982 ;
71. RICHARD WRIGHT, from Black Power, 1954 ;
72. JEAN-PAUL SARTRE, from Preface to D'Une Chine a I'Autre by Henri Carder-Bresson, 1954 ;
73. MINOR WHITE AND ROY DE€ARAVA, Correspondence, November 1955 (unpublished) ;
74. JACK KEROUAC, "On the Road to Florida," 1958 ;
75. TRUMAN CAPOTE, "Comments" Introduction to Observations by Richard Avedon, 1959 ;
76. GUNTER GRASS, from "The Photograph Album," from The Tin Drum, 1959 ;
77. CECIL BEATON, from Diaries [192.9, 1949], 1961, and EVELYN WAUGH, "Footlights and Chandeliers," 1961 ;
78. LAWRENCE DURRELL, Preface to Perspective of Nudes by Bill Brandt, 1961 ;
79. CARL VAN VECHTEN, from Letters, 1930-62 ;
80. MARIANNE MOORE, "Blue Bug," 1962 ;
81. JEAN COCTEAU AND LUCIEN CLERGUE, from Correspondance, 1955-63 ;
82. YUKIO MISHIMA, from Preface to Barakei [Ordeal by Roses] by Eikoh Hosoe, 1963 ;
83. JERZY KOSINSKI, from The Painted Bird, 1964, and Blind Date, 1977 ;
PART SIX: 1965-1990
84. THOMAS MERTON AND JOHN HOWARD GRIFFIN, from Writings, 1964-68 ;
85. SEAMUS HEANEY, "The Tollund Man," 1972 ;
86. MICHEL TOURNIER, from The Ogre, 1970 ;
87. HOWARD NEMEROV, "To D-, Dead by Her Own Hand", 1972 ;
88. ROLLIE McKENNA, MARION MOREHOUSE, INGE MORATH, JILL KREMENTZ, AND ELSA DORFMAN, Literary Portraits with texts, 1953-73 ;
89. ROSELLEN BROWN, "Good Housekeeping: A (Very) Short Story," 1973 ;
90. DUANE MICHALS, Things Are Queer, 1975 ;
91. OCTAVIO PAZ, "Facing Time" (for Manuel Alvarez Bravo), 1976 ;
92. MICHAEL ONDAATJE, from Coming Through Slaughter, 1976 ;
93. BRUCE CHATWIN, from In Patagonia, 1977 ;
94. TOM WOLFE, "Miss Aurora by Astral Projection," Introduction to Color Photographs by Marie Cosindas, 1978 ;
95. JONATHAN WILLIAMS, "Aaron Siskind at 75," 1979 ;
96. ALLEN GINSBERG, from "Allen Ginsberg's Sacramental Snapshots: An Interview" by Mark Holborn, 1985 ;
97. JOHN UPDIKE, "All in the Family," 1986 (unpublished) ;
98. RICHARD HOWARD, from "The Mapplethorpe Effect," 1988 ;
99. EUDORA WELTY, from "Eudora Welty and Photography: An Interview" by Hunter Cole and Seetha Srinivasan, 1989 ;
100. JOHN BALDESSARI, "Baudelaire Meets Poe," 1980 ;
APPENDIX: LAURENCE SENELICK, "Photography in the Drama," 1991 (unpublished) ;
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
TEXT CREDITS
ILLUSTRATION CREDITS
INDEX.