Camera works
Subtitle: photography and the twentieth-century word
By: Michael North
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
Subjects: Photography -- Social aspects -- 20th century; Photography -- Influence -- 20th century; Photography -- History -- 20th century; Literature and photography -- History -- 20th century
Description: 'Camera Works' is about the impact of photography and film on modern art and literature. With examples from the avant-garde of the little magazines and from classic authors like Fitzgerald and Hemingway, it argues that literature and art become modern byresponding to these new means of representation.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-246) and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Mechanical Recording and the Modern Arts; title: The Logocinema of the Little Magazines; title: Camera Work: The Hieroglyphics of the New Photography; title: Transition: The Movies, the Readies, and the Revolution of the Word; title: Close Up: International Modernism's Struggle with Sound; title: Spectatorship, Media Relations, and Modern American Fiction; title: F. Scott Fitzgerald's Spectroscopic Fiction; title: An Eyeminded People: Spectatorship in Dos Passos' U.S.A.; title: Du Bois, Johnson, and the Recordings of Race; title: Ernest Hemingway's Media Relations