Truth in Photography
Oxford Literary Review Volume 32, Issue 2
1st Edition
Published on 6. August 2019
128 pages
978-1-4744-7123-7 (ISBN)
Description
From the very invention of photography in the early part of the nineteenth century right up through the most recent developments in photography through digital technology, theorists have never stopped asking whether there is in fact any truth at all in photography. The essays collected in this volume consider this and related questions (for example, the relationship between photography and representation, history, time, narrative, memory, mourning, and so on) through the works of Walter Benjamin, Helene Cixous, and Jacques Derrida, among others. The volume opens with a previously untranslated essay by Derrida on photography, entitled, precisely, Aletheia (Truth), and it concludes with 'Melville's Couvade', an original work of fiction on the theme of photography by David Farrell Krell.
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- The Truth in Photography
- Snapshot
- Articles
- Aletheia
- What, in truth, is Photography? Notes after Kracauer
- Primal Phenomena and Photography
- Dark Room Readings: Scenes of Maternal Photography
- Fiction
- Melville's Couvade
- Book Reviews
- Michael Syrotinski, Deconstruction and the Postcolonial
- Judeities, ed. Bettina Bergo, Joseph Cohen, and Raphael Zagury-Orly
- Asja Szafreniec, Beckett, Derrida and the Event of Literature
- Contributors
