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| published: | Bielefeld transcript 2016 |
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De Gruyter eBook-Paket Sozialwissenschaften
Image ; volume 75 |
| Media Type: | Book, E-Book |
| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (187 Seiten); Illustrationen |
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| DOI: | 10.14361/9783839429549 |
| Access: | Open Access |
| ISBN: |
9783839429549
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| Language: | English |
| Part of: |
De Gruyter eBook-Paket Sozialwissenschaften
Image ; volume 75 |
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| Erscheint auch als: | Schwärzler, Monika, At face value & beyond, [1. Auflage], Bielefeld : transcript, 2016, 187 Seiten |
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At face value and beyond
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| Collection: | Verbunddaten SWB Lizenzfreie Online-Ressourcen |
How to account for the peculiar attraction of certain photos? How to pinpoint 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. Monika Schwärzler (PhD) teaches in the Department of Media Communications at Webster Vienna Private University. Her research interests include art and media theory, history of photography, documentary film and photography. |
| Frontmatter -- -- Acknowledgment -- -- Inhalt -- -- Introductory Remarks -- -- Conscious and Semi-Conscious States of the Camera: Comments on a History of Photographic Parapraxes -- -- Dressed to Suffer and Redeem: Staged Photography Featuring Biblical Narratives -- -- Blocked View and Impeded Vision: An Affective Response to the Photographs of Maria Hahnenkamp and Thomas Struth -- -- Unedited Glamor: The Vienna Opera Ball and Its Rendition by Network Cameras -- -- Lost in Pleasure: Mad Joy in Images of Youth Culture -- -- Death Can Wait: Images of Old Age and Dying in Austrian Hospice Campaigns -- -- “The Beast”: On the Photographic Staging of the Large Hadron Collider at the Nuclear Research Center in Geneva -- -- Denigrative Views: On the Deconstruction of Visages in Print Media -- -- The White Handbag: Photography and Ownership -- -- References |