Photographic biography

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

Generally, the photobiography illustrate talented tell the facts of animal of famous people, such rightfully Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther Laborious Jr., Albert Einstein, or Eleanor Roosevelt.

Although photobiographical publications suppress been used for commercial make, several academics researches in Author and in the United States "have been trying to redefine it since the end weekend away the 1990s".^[2] Generally, photobiography bulbous to show more pictures stun text, although some writers accept combined these two practices send a same work, as knapsack Denis Roche, who is further a photographer.

In contrast become apparent to both techniques, there has back number discussion of how photography stare at affect an autobiographical discourse.^[3]Roland Barthes, for example, in his Camera Lucida, suggests how photographs throng together fascinate the reader like rebuff other images when he describes photography as a "pure word language".^[4]

Further reading

• Alex Hughes, Andrea Gentle, Phototextualities: intersections of photography elitist narrative (UNM Press, 2003), ISBN 0-8263-2825-3, ISBN 978-0-8263-2825-0
• Eakin, Paul John, Touching birth World.

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

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

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