Picturing Ourselves Photography and Autobiography

Name: Picturing Ourselves Photography and Autobiography
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ISBN: 9780226731483

ISBN-10: 0226731480

ISBN-13: 9780226731483

Edition: 1997

Authors: Linda Haverty Rugg

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Photography has transformed the way we picture ourselves. Although photographs seem to "prove" our existence at a given point in time, they also demonstrate the impossibility of framing our multiple and fragmented selves. As Linda Haverty Rugg convincingly shows, photography's double take on self-image mirrors the concerns of autobiographers, who see the self as simultaneously divided (in observing/being) and unified by the autobiographical act. Rugg tracks photography's impact on the formation of self-image through the study of four literary autobiographers concerned with the transformative power of photography. Obsessed with self-image, Mark Twain and August Strindberg both attempted…

Book details

List price: $45.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 12/1/2007
Binding: E-Book
Pages: 293
Language: English