{"product_id":"9783031088544","title":"The Photographer as Autobiographer","description":"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. Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: The I of the Photographer: A Historical Perspective.- Chapter 3: A Structural Approach to Photographers' Memoirs.- Chapter 4: A Cognitive Approach to Photographers' Memoirs.- Chapter 5: \u003ci\u003eHold Still\u003c\/i\u003e.- Chapter 6: Conclusion.\n \u003cb\u003eArnaud Schmitt \u003c\/b\u003eis a Full Professor at the University of Bordeaux, France. He has published two books and multiple articles on autofiction and autobiography. \u003cp\u003e\"To me, that's what makes autobiographies by photographers interesting: not their faith in photography but their suspicion of it, and the transfer of their suspicion of photography's representation onto autobiography's representation.\" (Charles Reeve, Biography, Vol. 46 (2), 2023)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This book's exploration of how literary life writing and artistically composed, strategically positioned images combine to intensify the representation and impact of photographers' life stories is a timely intervention into this captivating hybrid genre, and a valuable contribution to life writing studies ... . Schmitt's wide-ranging, interdisciplinary insights, which collectively initiate critical discussions on the diversity and complexity of interchanges among memoirist, text, visual image, and reader, constitute a firm platform for more specialised analyses of creatively illustrated life narratives.\" (Merril Howie, Life Writing, June 19, 2023)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Palgrave Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49222459752675,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":109.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/usa.kinokuniya.com\/products\/9783031088544","provider":"Books Kinokuniya USA","version":"1.0","type":"link"}