At Face Value and Beyond
Photographic Constructions of Reality
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.
Kapitel-Übersicht
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Frontmatter
Seiten 1 - 6 -
Acknowledgment
Seite 7 -
Inhalt
Seiten 8 - 10 -
Introductory Remarks
Seiten 11 - 16 -
Conscious and Semi-Conscious States of the Camera
Seiten 17 - 32 -
Dressed to Suffer and Redeem
Seiten 33 - 54 -
Blocked View and Impeded Vision
Seiten 55 - 72 -
Unedited Glamor
Seiten 73 - 94 -
Lost in Pleasure
Seiten 95 - 112 -
Death Can Wait
Seiten 113 - 136 -
"The Beast"
Seiten 137 - 150 -
Denigrative Views
Seiten 151 - 162 -
The White Handbag
Seiten 163 - 180 -
References
Seiten 181 - 188
15. April 2016, 188 Seiten
ISBN: 978-3-8394-2954-9
Dateigröße: 17.4 MB