Palgrave Studies in Life Writing

Schmitt, Arnaud

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.

Details

Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2023-09-12

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9783031088575

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-08855-1

Dimensions: 210cm x148cm

Pages: 294