A box of photographs /
Grenier, Roger,1919-author.
Kaplan, Alice Yaeger,translator.
Most attempts to generalize about photography as a medium run up against our experience of the photographs themselves. We live with photos and cameras every day, and philosophies of the photographic image do little to shake our intimate sense of how we produce photographs and what they mean to us. In this book that is equal parts memoir and intellectual and cultural history, French writer Roger Grenier contemplates the ways that photography can change the course of a life, reflecting along the way on the history of photography and its practitioners.
"Originally published as Dans le secret d'une photo, ©Éditions Gallimard, Paris, 2010"--title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references.
Machine generated contents note: Posing for Portraits -- Baby Box -- Agfa -- A Summer in the Lab -- Negative of a Nude -- All That's Left Is the Smile -- Because of a Leica -- A New Agfa -- Backlighting -- On the Telepherique -- A Photo of the Train Station at Tarbes -- The Poor Man's Rollei -- A Victim of Heidegger -- The Curse of the Voigtlander -- Another Woman and a Leica -- One of the Fine Arts -- Colors -- Forcing -- The Jar -- Charles Dullin's Bedroom -- Saint-Germain-des-Pres -- The Saxophonist -- Destinies -- One, Two, Three! -- The Canon and the Photographer -- Atrocities -- The Beach at Ostia -- An Angel of the Streets -- News Photos -- Gisele's Grudge -- Police Interference -- To Each His Photographer -- An Official Image -- A Source -- In Exile -- The Swan Song of the Olympus -- Of Dogs and Goats -- The Dialectic of the Portrait.
Most attempts to generalize about photography as a medium run up against our experience of the photographs themselves. We live with photos and cameras every day, and philosophies of the photographic image do little to shake our intimate sense of how we produce photographs and what they mean to us. In this book that is equal parts memoir and intellectual and cultural history, French writer Roger Grenier contemplates the ways that photography can change the course of a life, reflecting along the way on the history of photography and its practitioners.
Grenier, Roger, 1919-
Authors, French
Photography
Dans le secret d'une photo.