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By Karen Beckman, Liliane Weissberg
ISBN-10: 0816677298
ISBN-13: 9780816677290
From James Agee to W. G. Sebald, there was an explosion of recent documentary narratives and fiction combining textual content and images in advanced and engaging methods. in spite of the fact that, those modern experiments are a part of a convention that stretches again to the early years of images. Writers were integrating photos into their paintings for so long as photos have existed, generating wealthy, multilayered creations; and photographers have continuously made photos that comprise, reply to, or functionality as writing. On Writing with Photography explores what occurs to texts—and images—when they're introduced together.
From the mid-nineteenth century to the current, this assortment addresses a variety of genres and media, together with photo novels, children’s books, photo-essays, motion pictures, diaries, newspapers, and paintings installations. reading the works of Herman Melville, Don DeLillo, Claude McKay, guy Ray, Dare Wright, man Debord, Zhang ill, and Roland Barthes, between others, the essays hint the connection among images and “reality” and describe the imaginary worlds built by means of either, discussing how this creation can become testimony of non-public and collective heritage, reminiscence and trauma, gender and sexuality, and ethnicity.
Together, those essays support clarify how writers and photographers—past and present—have served as strong inventive assets for every other.
Contributors: Stuart Burrows, Brown U; Roderick Coover, Temple U; Adrian Daub, Stanford U; Marcy J. Dinius, DePaul U; Marianne Hirsch, Columbia U; Daniel H. Magilow, U of Tennessee, Knoxville; Janine Mileaf; Tyrus Miller, U of California, Santa Cruz; Leah Rosenberg, U of Florida; Xiaojue Wang, U of Pennsylvania.