À la lettre (près) : autoportraits de Ralph Eugene Meatyard
This paper proposes to question American photographer Ralph Eugene Meatyard’s tendency to integrate various manifestations of the written sign into a number of his self-portraits. To what extent does the mediation of scriptural forms (if indeed “mediation” is the appropriate term) influence the mode...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Laboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA)
2023-06-01
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| Series: | E-REA |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/erea/16529 |
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| Summary: | This paper proposes to question American photographer Ralph Eugene Meatyard’s tendency to integrate various manifestations of the written sign into a number of his self-portraits. To what extent does the mediation of scriptural forms (if indeed “mediation” is the appropriate term) influence the modes of photographic self-representation as the relation between what can be seen and what can be read in these self-portraits seems to oscillate between equivalence, substitution, complementarity and interference? After a short reminder of the theoretical and historical links between photographic self-portraits and writing, five of such self-portraits by Meatyard are analyzed in order to shed light on this issue. |
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| ISSN: | 1638-1718 |