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Benjamin, Barthes and the Singularity of Photography
by Kathrin Yacavone
New York and London: Bloomsbury (formerly Continuum)
xiii + 247pp * 17 illus. * PB 978-1-62356-669-2 * $34.95 / £19.99
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Benjamin, Barthes and the Singularity of Photography presents two of
the most important intellectual figures of the twentieth century in a
new comparative light. Pursuing hitherto unexplored aspects of
Benjamin's and Barthes's engagement with photography, it provides
original interpretations of familiar texts and analyses material which
has only recently become available. It argues that Benjamin and
Barthes address similar issues and problems that photography uniquely
poses, including the relationship between the photograph and its
beholder as a confrontation between self and other, and the dynamic
relation between time, subjectivity, memory and loss. Each writer
emphasizes the singular event of the photograph's apprehension and its
ethical and existential aspects rooted in the power and poignancy of
photographic images. Mapping the complex relationship between
photographic history and theory, cultural criticism and autobiography,
this book will be of interest not only to historians and theorists of
photography but also to scholars working in literary and cultural
studies.
Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
List of Illustrations
Introduction
Benjamin and Barthes: The Question of Influence
Part One: The Birth of the Viewer
1. Benjamin's History of Photography
2. Alter Ego: The Childhood Portrait of Franz Kafka
3. Photography, Memory and Redemption
Part Two: Photography and Subjectivity
4. From Semiology to Phenomenology
5. Lost and Found: The Winter Garden Photograph
6. Photography and Memory: Barthes's Proustian Quest
Postscript: Singularity and Photography in the Age of Digitization
Bibliography
Index
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