At Face Value and Beyond: Photographic Constructions of RealityHow 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. |
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Dressed to Suffer and Redeem Staged Photography Featuring Biblical Narratives | 33 |
Blocked View and Impeded Vision An Affective Response to the Photographs of Maria Hahnenkamp and Thomas Struth ... | 55 |
Unedited Glamor The Vienna Opera Ball and Its Rendition by Network Cameras | 73 |
Lost in Pleasure Mad Joy in Images of Youth Culture | 95 |
Death Can Wait Images of Old Age and Dying in Austrian Hospice Campaigns | 113 |
The Beast On the Photographic Staging of the Large Hadron Collider at the Nuclear Research Center in Geneva ... | 137 |
Denigrative Views On the Deconstruction of Visages in Print Media | 151 |
The White Handbag Photography and Ownership | 163 |
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