{"product_id":"photo-texts-contemporary-french-writing-of-the-photographic-image-9781846310522","title":"Photo-texts: Contemporary French Writing of the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat 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, essay, fragment, poem) and photographic image.  Having considered three categories of ‘intermediality’ between text and photography – the collaborative, the self-collaborative and the retrospective – the book concludes that the dimensions of their interaction are not simple and two-fold (visuality versus\/alongside textuality), but threefold and therefore ‘complex’. Thus, the photo-text, as defined here, is concerned as much with orality – the demotic, the popular, the vernacular – as it is with visual and written culture. That text-image collaborations give space to the spoken, spectral traces of human discourse, suggests that the key element of the photo-text is its radical provisionality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe notes and the bibliography alone merit the acquisition of this work. A richer source on the topic of photo and text is difficult to imagine.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eHans Durrer, \u003ci\u003eAcross Cultures\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e * Across Cultures *\u003cbr\u003eThis is a densely written but highly readable book, an invaluable resource for students of photography and scholars interested in the relationship between photography and writing\/speaking — or, indeed, in any configuration of image and text.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAkane Kawakami, \u003ci\u003eFrench Studies\u003c\/i\u003e, vol 67, no 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eList of Illustrations\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1. Image-text: From the ‘Photobook’ to ‘Photo-essayism’\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2. Found Family Photos: Voicing in Anne-Marie Garat’s Essayism\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e3. My Favourite Piccies: Sequencing, Structuring and Essayism in Photo-Anthologies by Régis Debray and Denis Roche\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e4. Distance and Self in Raymond Depardon’s Errance\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e5. Regards croisés: The Moroccan City by Tahar Ben Jelloun\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e6. Fabulation in Fragments: Leïla Sebbar’s Algeria through the Photography of Marc Garanger\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e7. Patrick Chamoiseau and Rodolphe Hammadi in the Penal Colony: Photo-text and Memory-traces\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e8. ‘Paradis sans espoir’? Philippe Tagli’s ‘Photo-graffiti’ in the Parisian Banlieue\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e9. ‘La légende de l’histoire’: Bernard Noël’s Captions for Photography of the Paris Commune\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eConclusion: Silence, Orality, History\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNotes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBibliography\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Liverpool University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042990031191,"sku":"9781846310522","price":109.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781846310522.jpg?v=1750956552","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/photo-texts-contemporary-french-writing-of-the-photographic-image-9781846310522","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}