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Picturing Ourselves : Photography and Autobiography by Benjamin, Walter; Strindberg, August; Twain, Mark; Wolf, Christa; Wolf, Christa; Benjamin, Walter; Twain, Mark; Strindberg, August; Rugg, Linda Haverty is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Photography has transformed the way we picture ourselves. Although photographs seem to "prove" our existence at a given point in time, they also demonstrate the impossibility of framing our multiple and fragmented selves. As Linda Haverty Rugg convincingly shows, photography's double take on self-image mirrors the concerns of autobiographers, who see the self as simultaneously divided (in observing/being) and unified by the autobiographical act. Rugg tracks photography's impact on the formation of self-image through the study of four literary autobiographers concerned with the transformative power of photography. Obsessed with self-image, Mark Twain and August Strindberg both attempted (unsuccessfully) to integrate photographs into their autobiographies. While Twain encouraged photographers, he was wary of fakery and kept a fierce watch on the distribution of his photographic image. Strindberg, believing that photographs had occult power, preferred to photograph himself. Because of their experiences under National Socialism, Walter Benjamin and Christa Wolf feared the dangerously objectifying power of photographs and omitted them from their autobiographical writings. Yet Benjamin u

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Author

Benjamin, Walter; Strindberg, August; Twain, Mark; Wolf, Christa; Wolf, Christa; Benjamin, Walter; Twain, Mark; Strindberg, August; Rugg, Linda Haverty

Publisher

University Of Chicago Press

Published

1997

Language

EN

ISBN

9786611223984

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Photography, Memoir, Literary Fiction