Photo-texts by Stafford, Andrew;

Hosszú leírás:

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.

Tartalomjegyzék:

• 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