The Photographer as Autobiographer
Author: Arnaud Schmitt
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2023-09-25
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9783031088575
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores hybrid memoirs, combining text and images, authored by photographers. It contextualizes this sub-category of life writing from a historical perspective within the overall context of life writing, before taking a structural and cognitive approach to the text/image relationship. While autobiographers use photographs primarily for their illustrative or referential function, photographers have a much more complex interaction with pictures in their autobiographical accounts. This book explores how the visual aspect of a memoir may drastically alter the reader’s response to the work, but also how, in other cases, the visual parts seem disconnected from the text or underused.