The Truth in Photography: Oxford Literary Review Volume 32, Issue 2 (Oxford Literary Review Special Issues) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0748642528 ISBN 13: 9780748642526

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2011

Synopsis

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, Hélène 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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About the Author:

Michael Naas is Professor at the De Paul University

About this edition

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0748642528
• ISBN 13: 9780748642526
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 128
• Editor: Naas Michael