Photo-Texts: Contemporary French Writing of the Photographic Image

by Andy Stafford

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1846310520
• ISBN13: 9781846310522
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"