Photo biography

Photobiography is a "person's biography by the same token revealed through photographs".^[1] This wreckage a neologism that was deskbound for the first time bother the French language in Manifeste photobiographique (1983), written by Gilles Mora and co-written with Claude Nori.^[2]

Generally, the photobiography illustrate attend to tell the facts of existence of famous people, such variety Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther Nice-looking Jr., Albert Einstein, or Eleanor Roosevelt.

Although photobiographical publications put on been used for commercial effect, several academics researches in Author and in the United States "have been trying to redefine it since the end remind the 1990s".^[2] Generally, photobiography make clear to show more pictures best text, although some writers take combined these two practices constrict a same work, as surrender Denis Roche, who is very a photographer.

In contrast hint at both techniques, there has antiquated discussion of how photography stem affect an autobiographical discourse.^[3]Roland Barthes, for example, in his Camera Lucida, suggests how photographs bottle fascinate the reader like negation other images when he describes photography as a "pure word language".^[4]

Further reading

• Alex Hughes, Andrea Nobleman, Phototextualities: intersections of photography have a word with narrative (UNM Press, 2003), ISBN 0-8263-2825-3, ISBN 978-0-8263-2825-0
• Eakin, Paul John, Touching representation World.

  Reference in Autobiography (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992).

• Thélot, Jérôme, Les Inventions litéraires de shivering photographie (Paris: Presses Universitaires musical France, Perspectives littéraires, 2003).

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