Monika Schwärzler

At Face Value and Beyond (eBook, PDF)

Photographic Constructions of Reality

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

How to account for the peculiar attraction of certain photos? How to deal with the specific use of images in particular contexts? Monika Schwärzler presents a variety of photographic case studies exploring visual phenomena from the point of view of media analysis as well as from sociological, aesthetic, and psychoanalytic perspectives. The topics range from a new reading of Thomas Struth's street photographs to CERN photos with their charged rhetoric, from the assault of photographic close-ups to speculations on an anonymous slide collection featuring a woman with an ever-present white handbag. The book is intended for an audience receptive to the analytical appeal of images, prepared to go beyond what can be taken at face value.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Knowledge Unlatched - KU Select 2017: Backlist Collection / transcript Verlag
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783839429549
• Artikelnr.: 44791972

Autorenporträt

Monika Schwärzler-Brodesser, Doctorate in Philosophy from the University of Vienna. Former head of the Department of Art with an Emphasis in Visual Culture at Webster Vienna Private University. Research areas: art and media theory, photography, visual culture.