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The Photographer as Autobiographer

Palgrave Macmillan
  • Explores text/image interactions in photographers’ memoirs
  • Analyses how visual elements within autobiographical works affect the reader’s response to the text
  • Takes a three-pronged approach, combining historical, structural and cognitive perspectives

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Life Writing (PSLW)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
  2. Introduction

    • Arnaud Schmitt
    Pages 1-14
  3. Hold Still

    • Arnaud Schmitt
    Pages 231-270
  4. Conclusion

    • Arnaud Schmitt
    Pages 271-278
  5. Back Matter

    Pages 279-294

About this book

This book explores hybrid memoirs, combining text and images, authored by photographers. It contextualizes this sub-category of life writing from a historical perspective within the overall context of life writing, before taking a structural and cognitive approach to the text/image relationship. While autobiographers use photographs primarily for their illustrative or referential function, photographers have a much more complex interaction with pictures in their autobiographical accounts. This book explores how the visual aspect of a memoir may drastically alter the reader’s response to the work, but also how, in other cases, the visual parts seem disconnected from the text or underused.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France

    Arnaud Schmitt

About the author

Arnaud Schmitt is a Full Professor at the University of Bordeaux, France. He has published two books and multiple articles on autofiction and autobiography.

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Softcover Book USD 109.99
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Hardcover Book USD 109.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
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