Photos, Facts and Fiction: Literary Texts and Mechanical Representation

As a mechanical mode of representation, both iconic and indexical, photography has a testimonial and documentary power matched only by film and audio recordings. As Roland Barthes put it, “contrary to [language-based] imitations, in Photography, I can never deny that the thing has been there.” Yet “...

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Main Author: Marie-Laure Ryan
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Università degli Studi di Torino 2018-12-01
Series:CoSMO
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Online Access:https://www.ojs.unito.it/index.php/COSMO/article/view/3110