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May 11, 2020 · Social theory and photographic aesthetics both engage with issues of representation, realism and validity, having crossed paths in theoretical and methodological controversies. This discussion begins with reflections on the realism debate in photography, arguing that beyond the polar positions of realism and constructivism the photographic ...
- Larry J. Ray
- 2020
Apr 8, 2011 · Introduction: On literary images. A literary image implies a link between writing, seeing and image making. An image can be a picture and it also can be made of words. Yet a literary image is an ambiguous notion. Some may object to an image that needs language, just as some may reject imagistic language.
- Olivier Richon
- 2011
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Text: Main literary statement accompanying a series of photographs, usually presenting information about the theme and its background not con-tained in photographs and captions. Text, no matter how closely related to the photographs, is a complete and independent statement of words. There appear to be four main forms of the caption.
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A key strand of critical reflection has been literature’s negotiation with photography during the nineteenth century. The strength of Baudelaire’s reaction to photography perhaps stems from a fundamental recognition that it had become an unavoidable part of the cultural landscape, and would change irreversibly people’s perception of the world. Timo...
One aspect of the relationship between literature and photography is how the photographic is captured and thematized in literature, or how techniques of photographic vision quietly reshape figurative language, modes of writing, or literary style. A second, which has become increasingly visible and influential since the turn of the present century, ...
Chamoiseau’s work with Hammadi and other photographers is an example of the sort of collaborations which have been a long-standing aspect of the meeting between literature and photography in France, as well as one of its most visible manifestations. The Surrealists were among the first to appreciate and set in motion the tricky dynamics of the phot...
- Edward Welch
- 2019
Roland Barthes’s seminal writings on semiotics and photography point to how titles, captions, and accompanying or included texts can clarify, elaborate, or change the message of a photograph. Because of their indexicality, Barthes notes that, to all appearances, a photograph is “a message without a code”—that is, a neutral image exclusively
different points of view. The language of photography, from a representational point of view, is connected with the compositional aspects of the picture and with the technical features of the camera such as the lens, focus, light, and exposure. Conversely, by considering photography as presentation, its language follows other parameters, and ...
Aug 18, 2020 · Using your senses, write a poem that centers and delves into the punctum, the precise detail. What does a detail reveal about the whole? In Roland Barthes’s 1981 book Camera Lucida, he introduces the concept of a photograph’s punctum, which can be defined as the sensory, intensely subjective effect of a.
