The Photographer as Autobiographer (Palgrave Studies in Life Writing)

This book explores hybrid memoirs, combining text and images, authored by photographers. It contextualizes this sub-category of life writing from a historical perspective within the overall context of life writing, before taking a structural and cognitive approach to the text/image relationship. While autobiographers use photographs primarily for their illustrative or referential function, photographers have a much more complex interaction with pictures in their autobiographical accounts. This book explores how the visual aspect of a memoir may drastically alter the reader’s response to the work, but also how, in other cases, the visual parts seem disconnected from the text or underused.

• | Author: Arnaud Schmitt
• | Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• | Publication Date: Sep 11, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 303 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Literary Criticism
• | ISBN-10: 3031088549
• | ISBN-13: 9783031088544