Photo-texts
Contemporary French Writing of the Photographic Image
Series: Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures; 14;
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Product details:
- Publisher Liverpool University Press
- Date of Publication 30 June 2010
- ISBN 9781846310522
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages256 pages
- Size 239x163 mm
- Weight 666 g
- Language English 0
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Long description:
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.
Andy Stafford’s book is a welcome and attractive publication to the fast-growing field of intermediality studies, and an exciting enrichment of a series that opens new ways in the study of postcolonial Francophony.
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction
- 1. Image-text: From the &&&x2018;Photobook&&&x2019; to &&&x2018;Photo-essayism&&&x2019;
- 2. Found Family Photos: Voicing in Anne-Marie Garat&&&x2019;s Essayism
- 3. My Favourite Piccies: Sequencing, Structuring and Essayism in Photo-Anthologies by R&&&xE9;gis Debray and Denis Roche
- 4. Distance and Self in Raymond Depardon&&&x2019;s Errance
- 5. Regards crois&&&xE9;s: The Moroccan City by Tahar Ben Jelloun
- 6. Fabulation in Fragments: Le&&&xEF;la Sebbar&&&x2019;s Algeria through the Photography of Marc Garanger
- 7. Patrick Chamoiseau and Rodolphe Hammadi in the Penal Colony: Photo-text and Memory-traces
- 8. &&&x2018;Paradis sans espoir&&&x2019;? Philippe Tagli&&&x2019;s &&&x2018;Photo-graffiti&&&x2019; in the Parisian Banlieue
- 9. &&&x2018;La l&&&xE9;gende de l&&&x2019;histoire&&&x2019;: Bernard No&&&xEB;l&&&x2019;s Captions for Photography of the Paris Commune
- Conclusion: Silence, Orality, History
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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