Still flat out reading... more later. But this article on doubling
narrative in novels and photographs is interesting.
http://www.doubledialogues.com/archive/issue_seven/davis.html
When photographs become manifest in imaginative texts they trigger a
procession of speculation about the nature of the photographic space
that has been created and they become a force of interruption to the
reader’s gaze. The focused gaze upon the text becomes, as I have
suggested, a double gaze across image and text. And because a photograph
offers evidence of ‘having been’, this double gaze within an imaginative
narrative becomes an interrogation of the very space of the novel. In a
sense the double gaze becomes an attempt to establish a meaning
(connotation) of the photograph beyond its denoted message. When we look
at photographs in novels we are asking a range of simultaneous questions
such as: What do they represent? What do they mean? Are they real?
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