At Face Value and Beyond
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Bielefeld, Germany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 187
ISBN-13: 9783837629545; 9783839429549
Subjects: Media studies
Description: How to account for the peculiar attraction of certain photos? How to deal with 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.
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