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The Short Story and Photography, 1880's-1980's: A Critical Anthology

by Jane M. Rabb, Eugenia Parry
$10.90
The Short Story and Photography, 1880's-1980's: A Critical Anthology
The Short Story and Photography, 1880's-1980's: A Critical Anthology

Intersection of narrative prose and visual art.

If you're intrigued by the interplay between the written word and the photographic image, this anthology is an enlightening journey through history. It sheds light on how stories and photographs combine to tell tales in a way that neither medium could achieve alone. Perfect for lovers of literature and photography looking for a deeper understanding of storytelling.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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The Short Story and Photography, 1880's-1980's: A Critical Anthology

by Jane M. Rabb, Eugenia Parry
$10.90
ISBN: 9780826318718
Authors: Jane M. Rabb, Eugenia Parry
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Date of Publication: 1998-02-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Art, History
Related Topics: Art and Photography, Art History, Crafts, Photography
Goodreads rating: 3.8
(rated by 10 readers)

Description

For over a hundred years stories about photographs and photography have reflected the profound uncertainties and inconclusive endings of the modern world. For many writers, photography, supposedly the most realistic of the arts, turns out to be the most ambiguous. As Jane Rabb observes in her introduction, a number of the stories in this collection involve mysteries, perhaps because photography has a capacity for both documentary reality and moral and psychological ambiguity. Many nineteenth-century writers represented here, including Thomas Hardy and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, helped make short fiction as respectable as the novel. Some of them were even serious photographers themselves. The twentieth century is arguably a golden age for both the short story and photography. This collection includes examples from a worldly group of writers—Eugène Ionesco, Julio Cortázar, Michel Tournier, and Italo Calvino, as well as the Chinese writer Bing Xin and John Updike, Cynthia Ozick, and Raymond Carver. In this wide range of stories, varying from sentimental to obsessive, to sinister, to tragic and even fatal, the reader will find provocative examples of the confluence of the short story and photography, both once considered the bastard stepchildren of literature and art.
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Intersection of narrative prose and visual art.

If you're intrigued by the interplay between the written word and the photographic image, this anthology is an enlightening journey through history. It sheds light on how stories and photographs combine to tell tales in a way that neither medium could achieve alone. Perfect for lovers of literature and photography looking for a deeper understanding of storytelling.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.