Name: The Photographer as Autobiographer
ISBN: 978-3-031-08855-1

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Arnaud Schmitt ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9570-9562⁰

Arnaud Schmitt
1. University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
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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)

Front Matter

Pages i-ix

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Introduction
- Arnaud Schmitt
Pages 1-14
The I of the Photographer: A Historical Perspective
- Arnaud Schmitt
Pages 15-64
A Structural Approach to Photographers’ Memoirs
- Arnaud Schmitt
Pages 65-142
A Cognitive Approach to Photographers’ Memoirs
- Arnaud Schmitt
Pages 143-230
Hold Still
- Arnaud Schmitt
Pages 231-270
Conclusion
- Arnaud Schmitt
Pages 271-278
Back Matter

Pages 279-294

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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.

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University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France

Arnaud Schmitt

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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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Book Title: The Photographer as Autobiographer
Authors: Arnaud Schmitt
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Life Writing
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08855-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-08854-4Published: 11 September 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-08857-5Published: 12 September 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-08855-1Published: 10 September 2022
Series ISSN: 2730-9185
Series E-ISSN: 2730-9193
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 294
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 61 illustrations in colour
Topics: Literature, general, Photography, Memory Studies, History of the Book

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

Front Matter

Introduction

The I of the Photographer: A Historical Perspective

A Structural Approach to Photographers’ Memoirs

A Cognitive Approach to Photographers’ Memoirs

Hold Still

Conclusion

Back Matter

Keywords

About this book

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University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France

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