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published: | transcript 2016 |
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At Face Value and Beyond. Photographic Constructions of Reality
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Media Type: | Book, E-Book |
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978-3-8394-2954-9
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published in: | Schwärzler, Monika (2016): At Face Value and Beyond. Photographic Constructions of Reality. Bielefeld: transcript-Verlag. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/1405. |
Language: | English |
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At Face Value and Beyond. Photographic Constructions of Reality
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Collection: | media/rep/ - Repositorium für die Medienwissenschaft |
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. |