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Photography Performing Humor

Photography Performing Humor

Bleyen, Mieke
Decan, Liesbeth

Paperback

Series: Lieven Gevaert

HumorGeneral PhotographyPhotography History & Criticism

ISBN10: 9462701652
ISBN13: 9789462701656
Publisher: Leuven University Press
Published: Jul 15 2019
Pages: 250
Weight: 1.40
Height: 0.60 Width: 8.30 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Despite the ubiquitous presence of photographic humor in art and popular media, the phenomenon has as yet received very little scholarly attention. Focusing on staged humor rather than on comic effects of snapshot photography, this volume brings together leading scholars in the field addressing humor performed in front of the camera, often specifically created for the camera, and the performative joke-work done by the medium itself. A first section explores how photography, due to its shattering qualities, turns into a privileged medium for eliciting humorous effects and how humor can be discerned within the photographic event. A second section discusses the toolbox of photographic trickery (photomontage, double exposure and cinematic movement) that allows photography to mock itself. The book closes with a section on photographic wit in conceptual art, both in canonized and more locally distinct practices.

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