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"Photo-texts" by Andy Stafford is a book focused on Photography Basics. Best for readers interested in this subject.
What do photographs want? Do they need any accompaniment in today's image-saturated society? Can writing inflect photography (or vice versa) in such a way that neither medium takes precedence? Or are they in constant, inexorable battle with each other? Taking nine case studies from the 1990s French-speaking world (from France, North Africa and the Caribbean), this book attempts to define the interaction between non-fictional written text (caption, essay, fragment, poem) and photographic image. Having considered three categories of 'intermediality' between text and photography - the collaborative, the self-collaborative and the retrospective - the book concludes that the dimensions of their interaction are not simple and two-fold (visuality versus/alongside textuality), but threefold and therefore 'complex'. Thus, the photo-text, as defined here, is concerned as much with orality - the demotic, the popular, the vernacular - as it is with visual and written culture. That text-image collaborations give space to the spoken, spectral traces of human discourse, suggests that the key element of the photo-text is its radical provisionality.
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"Photo-texts" by Andy Stafford is a book focused on Photography Basics. Best for readers interested in this subject.
Topic: Photography Basics
Author: Andy Stafford
Who this is for:
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- Educators
- Interested readers
Why this book matters: It offers useful subject matter and structured coverage for readers looking to explore the topic in more depth.
What do photographs want? Do they need any accompaniment in today's image-saturated society? Can writing inflect photography (or vice versa) in such a way that neither medium takes precedence? Or are they in constant, inexorable battle with each other? Taking nine case studies from the 1990s French-speaking world (from France, North Africa and the Caribbean), this book attempts to define the interaction between non-fictional written text (caption, essay, fragment, poem) and photographic image. Having considered three categories of 'intermediality' between text and photography - the collaborative, the self-collaborative and the retrospective - the book concludes that the dimensions of their interaction are not simple and two-fold (visuality versus/alongside textuality), but threefold and therefore 'complex'. Thus, the photo-text, as defined here, is concerned as much with orality - the demotic, the popular, the vernacular - as it is with visual and written culture. That text-image collaborations give space to the spoken, spectral traces of human discourse, suggests that the key element of the photo-text is its radical provisionality.
| Author | Andy Stafford |
| Publisher | Liverpool University Press |
| Published | 2010-01-01 |
| ISBN-13 | 9781846310522 |
| Binding | Hardcover |
| Pages | 257 |
| Language | English |
| Subjects | Photography |
| Topic | Photography Basics |
| Series | Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures |
Format: Hardcover
Length: 257 pages
Language: English
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