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The Truth in Photography

The Truth in Photography

Paperback

Series: Oxford Literary Review Special Issues

Letters & EssaysLiterary CriticismPhotography History & Criticism

ISBN10: 0748642528
ISBN13: 9780748642526
Publisher: Edinburgh Univ Pr
Published: Feb 4 2011
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
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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