Paper Graveyards by Eduardo Cadava (English) Hardcover Book

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"A collection of essays on photography as part of a wider art historical, political and philosophical meditation on the relevance of the image"--

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A generously illustrated training manual for reading images, discussing work by Felix Nadar, Roland Barthes, Fazal Sheikh, Susan Meiselas, and others.Paper Graveyards is neither a work of traditional art history nor one of literary criticism. It is not strictly a history of ideas either, notwithstanding its very obvious erudition. Rather, in drawing upon all of these methods and approaches-and with extraordinary attention to language and style-Cadava's writing examines the spectacular explosion of images during the last twenty years as a prompt to discuss not simply specific images but the role and place of these images in our everyday life.Considering work by Felix Nadar, Roland Barthes, Leon Golub, Nancy Spero, Fazal Sheikh, Susan Meiselas, and others, Cadava delineates different modes of reading that, taking their point of departure from the conviction that the past, the present, and the future are always bound together, provide us with a training manual of sorts for understanding visual material in the twenty-first century. In the process, these generously illustrated essays actively expand our sense of literacy by reconstructing the networks of relations that inhabit the plural worlds of images, and create a critical genealogy of what we still call "an image," even when, with every day that passes, we perhaps understand less and less what this might mean.

Author Biography

Eduardo Cadava is Professor of English at Princeton University. He is the author of Words of Light- Theses on the Photography of History and Emerson and the Climates of History, and the coeditor of Who Comes after the Subject?, Cities without Citizens, and The Itinerant Languages of Photography. He also has introduced and cotranslated Nadar's memoir, Quand j'etais photographe, published by the MIT Press as When I Was a Photographer.

Table of Contents

Preface 13Introduction: Paper Graveyards 27I. Nadar's Photographopolis 65II. The Image in Ruins 105III. Notes on Love and Photography 137IV. Drawing in Tongues 189V. Trees, Hands, Stars, and Veils 267VI. Learning to See 337Postscript: Lessons of the Hour 421Acknowledgments 446Notes 450List of Illustrations 494Index 502

Details ISBN0262046040 Author Eduardo Cadava Language English Year 2021 ISBN-10 0262046040 ISBN-13 9780262046046 Format Hardcover DEWEY 770.1 Imprint MIT Press Country of Publication United States Illustrations 88 colour illustrations Pages 400 Publisher MIT Press Ltd Publication Date 2021-10-26 AU Release Date 2021-10-26 NZ Release Date 2021-10-26 US Release Date 2021-10-26 UK Release Date 2021-10-26 Illustrator Gladys Jose Edited by Oier Etxeberria Birth 1927 Affiliation Clark University Position journalist Qualifications PsyD Audience General We've got this

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