At Face Value and Beyond
Photographic Constructions of Reality
Author(s)
Schwärzler, Monika
Collection
Knowledge Unlatched (KU)Number
101249Language
EnglishAbstract
How to account for the peculiar attraction of certain photos? How to deal with 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.
Keywords
Arts; Photography; Visual Culture; Imagery; Visual Literacy; Media; Image; Visual Studies; Fine Arts; Large Hadron Collider; Thomas StruthISBN
9783839429549OCN
953603302Publisher
transcript VerlagPublisher website
https://www.transcript-verlag.de/Publication date and place
Bielefeld, Germany, 2016-04-15Series
Image,Classification
Media studies