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.
Author(s): Monika Schwärzler
Series: Image
Publisher: transcript publishing
Year: 2016
Language: English
Pages: 188
Cover
Acknowledgment
Inhalt
Introductory Remarks
Conscious and Semi-Conscious States of the Camera. Comments on a History of Photographic Parapraxes
Dressed to Suffer and Redeem. Staged Photography Featuring Biblical Narratives
Blocked View and Impeded Vision. An Affective Response to the Photographs of Maria Hahnenkamp and Thomas Struth
Unedited Glamor. The Vienna Opera Ball and Its Rendition by Network Cameras
Lost in Pleasure. Mad Joy in Images of Youth Culture
Death Can Wait. Images of Old Age and Dying in Austrian Hospice Campaigns
“The Beast”. On the Photographic Staging of the Large Hadron Collider at the Nuclear Research Center in Geneva
Denigrative Views. On the Deconstruction of Visages in Print Media
The White Handbag. Photography and Ownership
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