The Photographer as Autobiographer

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The Photographer as Autobiographer is written by Arnaud Schmitt and published by Palgrave Macmillan. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3031088573 (ISBN 10) and 9783031088575 (ISBN 13).

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.