Stafford, A. (2005) Non-pareille? Issues in Modern French Photo-Essayism. In: The Modern Essay in French: Movement, Instability, Performance. Modern French Identities (41). Peter Lang , Oxford , pp. 101-118. ISBN 3039105140
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Abstract
[FIRST PARAGRAPH][L]’esthéthique sait depuis longtemps que l’image, contrairement à ce que croit et fait croire la machine d’information, montre toujours moins bien que les mots toute grandeur qui passe la mesure: horreur, gloire, sublimité, extase. (Comolli and Rancière 1997, 66)
It may seem odd, in a general analysis of the modern French essay accompanying photography, that there is no reproduction of photographs. This is however a deliberate choice, and not one without precedent, as the collection of Michel Butor’s photo-essays into one photo-less volume shows. For it would seem in this age of the image – dubbed by essayists as diverse as Debray (1992), Flusser (2000 [1983]), Gervereau (2000), Glissant (1994) as the televisual era – the written word has tended to be downplayed. This is no more the case than in the photo-essay, a sub-genre largely overlooked and under-theorised, generally subsumed within photo-journalism, and in which photographic sequences are preferred to written text (see Mélon, in Baetens and Gonzalez 1996, 138–55).
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | Reproduced with permission from the publisher. |
| Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts (Leeds) > School of Modern Languages and Cultures (Leeds) > French (Leeds) |
| Depositing User: | Repository Officer |
| Date Deposited: | 24 Nov 2005 |
| Last Modified: | 08 Feb 2013 16:48 |
| Status: | Published |
| Publisher: | Peter Lang |
| Refereed: | Yes |
| URI: | http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/782 |
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