| Description |
1 online resource (187 pages) : illustrations (some color). |
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text file PDF |
| Series |
Image ; volume 75
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Image (Transcript (Firm)) ; v. 75.
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| Summary |
How to account for the peculiar attraction of certain photos? How to pinpoint the specific use of images in particular contexts? Monika Schwärzler presents a variety of photographic case studies exploring visual phenomena from the point of view of media analysis, as well as from sociological, aesthetic, and psychoanalytic perspectives. The topics range from a new reading of Thomas Struth's street photographs to CERN photos with their charged rhetoric, from the assault of photographic close-ups to speculations on an anonymous slide collection featuring a woman with an ever-present white handbag. The book is intended for an audience receptive to the analytical appeal of images, prepared to go beyond what can be taken at face value.-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-187). |
| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgment -- Inhalt -- Introductory Remarks -- Conscious and Semi-Conscious States of the Camera: Comments on a History of Photographic Parapraxes -- Dressed to Suffer and Redeem: Staged Photography Featuring Biblical Narratives -- Blocked View and Impeded Vision: An Affective Response to the Photographs of Maria Hahnenkamp and Thomas Struth -- Unedited Glamor: The Vienna Opera Ball and Its Rendition by Network Cameras -- Lost in Pleasure: Mad Joy in Images of Youth Culture -- Death Can Wait: Images of Old Age and Dying in Austrian Hospice Campaigns -- "The Beast": On the Photographic Staging of the Large Hadron Collider at the Nuclear Research Center in Geneva -- Denigrative Views: On the Deconstruction of Visages in Print Media -- White Handbag: Photography and Ownership -- References. |
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode |
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This work is licensed by Knowledge Unlatched under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode |
| Local Note |
JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access |
| Language |
In English; one paper translated from the original German. |
| Subject |
Photography -- Appreciation.
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Photography -- Appreciation. |
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Visual communication in art.
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Visual communication in art. |
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Photography, Artistic.
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Photography, Artistic. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Title |
At face value and beyond : photographic constructions of reality |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Schwärzler, Monika. At face value & beyond. [Bielefeld] : Transcript Verlag, 2016 (DLC) 2016418357 |
| ISBN |
3839429544 (electronic book) |
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9783839429549 (electronic book) |
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9783837629545 |
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3837629546 |
| Standard No. |
10.14361/9783839429549 |
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