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1 online resource (297 pages) |
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Mina Loy, Twentieth-Century Photography, and Contemporary Women Poets- Front Cover; Mina Loy, Twentieth-Century Photography, and Contemporary Women Poets; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication ; Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Permissions; Introduction; Notes; Chapter 1: Loy among the photographers: poetry, perception, and the camera; Portraits and photographers; Julien Levy and the modern photograph; Islands in the Air and the figure of the photographer; Vision and poetry; Notes; Chapter 2: Surrealism and the female body: economies of violence |
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Surrealist contexts and contextualized SurrealismSurrealist cameras; Loy and the female body of Surrealism; The Surrealist mannequin; Hans Bellmer, bodies, and war; Notes; Chapter 3: Portraits of the poor: the Bowery poems and the rise of documentary photography; The 1930s and the rise of documentary; Urban documentary and the visual rhetoric of poverty; Portraits of the poor; "Hot Cross Bum" and the tabloids: Sequence as portrait; Notes; Chapter 4: From patriotism to atrocity: the war poems and photojournalism; Patriotism and the poetics of the mural photo-exhibit |
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The rise of photojournalismThe female gaze and the gendered body; Atrocity and the female body; Photographing the bomb; Notes; Chapter 5: Gendering the camera: Kathleen Fraser and Caroline Bergvall; Kathleen Fraser and visual reassembly: "[T]he screen was carried inside her"; Caroline Bergvall's rearticulated bodies: Photography and the graphic page; Coda: Looking back to Loy; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781351793476 |
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1351793470 |
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