Photography and literature

We cite from the COVER :
"The advent of photography posed one of the greatest challenges to writers, for here was an artistic medium that seemed automatically to deliver a perfectly truthful form of representation. As François Brunet argues in Photography and Literature, the result of this challenge has been a fantastic interplay between the two, and between photographers and writers themselves."
"Photography and Literature assesses the complete history of photography, and Brunet relates how its invention was shaped by written culture, both scientific and literary. He also looks at the creation of the photo-book, the frequent personal discovery of photography by writers, and how photography and literature eventually began to trade tools and merge formats to create a new photo-textual genre. Highly illustrated, Photography and Literature reflects a photographer's point of view, giving new attention to such works as the groundbreaking exploration of photography in William Henry Fox Talbot's The Pencil of Nature and Hervé Guibert's or Cindy Sherman's photographic fictions."
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