This book explores hybrid memoirs, combining text and images, authored by photographers. It contextualizes this sub-category of life writing from a historical perspective within the overall context of life writing, before taking a structural and cognitive approach to the text/image relationship. While autobiographers use photographs primarily for their illustrative or referential function, photographers have a much more complex interaction with pictures in their autobiographical accounts. This book explores how the visual aspect of a memoir may drastically alter the reader's response to the work, but also how, in other cases, the visual parts seem disconnected from the text or underused.

Explores text/image interactions in photographers' memoirs Analyses how visual elements within autobiographical works affect the reader's response to the text Takes a three-pronged approach, combining historical, structural and cognitive perspectives

Autorentext

Arnaud Schmitt is a Full Professor at the University of Bordeaux, France. He has published two books and multiple articles on autofiction and autobiography.

Inhalt
Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: The I of the Photographer: A Historical Perspective.- Chapter 3: A Structural Approach to Photographers' Memoirs.- Chapter 4: A Cognitive Approach to Photographers' Memoirs.- Chapter 5: Hold Still .- Chapter 6: Conclusion.