The Photographer as Autobiographer (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783031088544)

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.

Author: Arnaud Schmitt
ISBN-10: 3031088549
ISBN-13: 9783031088544
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 09/11/2022
Pages: 294
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.14lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.75d