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At Face Value and Beyond Photographic Constructions of Reality

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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, aesthe...

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Main Author: Schwärzler, Monika (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Bielefeld, Germany transcript Verlag 2016
Series:Image
Subjects:
Media studies
Arts
Photography
Visual Culture
Imagery
Visual Literacy
Media
Image
Visual Studies
Fine Arts
Large Hadron Collider
Thomas Struth
Online Access:OAPEN Library: download the publication
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Summary: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.
ISBN:9783839429549
Access:Open Access

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