| Description |
ix, 246 pages : black and white illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Series |
Contemporary French and francophone cultures ; 14 |
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Contemporary French and francophone cultures ; 14
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| Contents |
Introduction -- Image-text : from the "photobook' to 'photo-essayism' -- Found family photos : voicing in Anne-Marie Garat's essayism -- My favourite piccies : sequencing, structuring and essayism in photo-anthologies / Régis Debray and Denis Roche -- Distance and self in Raymond Depardon's 'Errance' -- 'Regards croisés' : the Moroccan city by Tahar Ben Jelloun -- Fabulation in fragments : Leïla Sebbar's Algeria through the photography of Marc Garanger -- Patrick Chamoiseau and Rodolphe Hammadi in the penal colony : photo-text and memory-traces -- "Paradis sans espoir"? Philippe Tagli's "photo-graffiti" in the Parisian Banlieue -- "La légende de l'histoire" : Bernard Noël's captions for photography of the Paris Commune -- Conclusion : silence, orality, history |
| Summary |
What do photographs want? Do they need any accompaniment in today's image-saturated society? Can writing inflect photography (or vice versa) in such a way that neither medium takes precedence? Or are they in constant, inexorable battle with each other? Taking nine case studies from the 1990s French-speaking world (from France, North Africa and the Caribbean), this book attempts to define the interaction between non-fictional written text (caption, essay, fragment, poem) and photographic image. Having considered three categories of intermediality between text and photography the collaborative, the self-collaborative and the retrospective the book concludes that the dimensions of their interaction are not simple and two-fold (visuality versus/alongside textuality), but threefold and therefore complex. Thus, the photo-text, as defined here, is concerned as much with orality the demotic, the popular, the vernacular as it is with visual and written culture. That text-image collaborations give space to the spoken, spectral traces of human discourse, suggests that the key element of the photo-text is its radical provisionality |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Essayists.
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Photography.
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| ISBN |
1846310520 (cased) |
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9781846310522 (cased) |
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