At Face Value and Beyond: Photographic Constructions of Reality

Schwärzler, Monika

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%T At Face Value and Beyond: Photographic Constructions of Reality
%A Schwärzler, Monika
%P 187
%V 75
%D 2016
%I transcript Verlag
%K Visual Culture; Imagery; Visual Literacy; Visual Studies
%@ 978-3-8394-2954-9
%~ transcript Verlag
%> https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-87908-9
%U https://www.transcript-verlag.de/shopMedia/openaccess/pdf/oa9783839429549.pdf
%X How to account for the peculiar attraction of certain photos? How to deal with the specific use of images in particular contexts? The author 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.
%C DEU
%C Bielefeld
%G en
%9 Monographie
%W GESIS - http://www.gesis.org
%~ SSOAR - http://www.ssoar.info