Arnaud Schmitt

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The Photographer as Autobiographer (eBook, PDF)

Beschreibung

This book explores hybrid memoirs, combining text and images, authored by photographers. It contextualizes this sub-category of life writing from a historical perspective within the overall context of life writing, before taking a structural and cognitive approach to the text/image relationship. While autobiographers use photographs primarily for their illustrative or referential function, photographers have a much more complex interaction with pictures in their autobiographical accounts. This book explores how the visual aspect of a memoir may drastically alter the reader's response to the work, but also how, in other cases, the visual parts seem disconnected from the text or underused.

Arnaud Schmitt is a Full Professor at the University of Bordeaux, France. He has published two books and multiple articles on autofiction and autobiography.

• Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. September 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783031088551
• Artikelnr.: 65694130