On Writing with Photography
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
On Writing with Photography
By (Author) Karen Beckman
Edited by Liliane Weissberg
University of Minnesota Press
University of Minnesota Press
22nd February 2013
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Literature: history and criticism
809.93357
Physical Properties
Paperback
368
Width 140mm, Height 216mm, Spine 51mm
Description
From James Agee to W. G. Sebald, there has been an explosion of modern documentary narratives and fiction combining text and photography in complex and fascinating ways. However, these contemporary experiments are part of a tradition that stretches back to the early years of photography. On Writing with Photography explores what happens to textsand imageswhen they are brought together.
Author Bio
Karen Beckman is Elliot and Roslyn Jaffe Professor of Cinema and Modern Media in the Department of the History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania. She is author of Vanishing Women: Magic, Film, and Feminism and Crash: Cinema and the Politics of Speed and Stasis.
Liliane Weissberg is Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor in Arts and Sciences and Professor of German and Comparative Literature.
