19th century
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alison bechdel
analysis
artistic
austerlitz
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blade runner
camera lucida
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contemporary
criticism
cultural studies
culture
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film
fugitive subjects
fun home
graphic novel
historical
history
humanities
identity
image
imagery
literary
literature
material witness
media
photographic interpretation
photographs
photography
representation
ridley scott
roland barthes
sense of self
truth
Product details
- ISBN 9780226242033
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 16 x 24mm
- Publication Date: 06 Jul 2015
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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In the digital age, photography confronts its future under the competing signs of ubiquity and obsolescence. While technology allows amateurs and experts alike to create high-quality photographs, new electronic formats have severed the photochemical link between image and subject. At the same time, cinematic, staged, or digitally enhanced art styles stretch the concept of photography and raise questions about its truth value. Despite this ambiguity, photography remains a stubbornly substantive form of evidence. Referenced by artists, filmmakers, and writers as a powerful emblem of truth, photography has found its home in other media at the moment of its own material demise. By examining the medium as articulated in literature, film, and the graphic novel, Daguerreotypes demonstrates how photography secures identity for figures with an unstable sense of self. From Roland Barthes' Camera Lucida to Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, W. G. Sebald's Austerlitz to Alison Bechdel's Fun Home - we find traces of these "fugitive subjects" throughout contemporary culture. Ultimately, Daguerreotypes reveals how the photograph has inspired a range of modern artistic and critical practices.
Lisa Saltzman is professor and chair of history of art at Bryn Mawr College. She is the author of Making Memory Matter: Strategies of Remembrance in Contemporary Art, also published by the University of Chicago Press.
