The Photographer as Autobiographer

By Arnaud Schmitt

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031088549
• ISBN13: 9783031088544
• Release Date: September 2022
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.3"