At Face Value and Beyond, Photographic Constructions of Reality

Author

Schwarzler; Monika

Year

2016

Publisher

Transcript Verlag

Language

English

Pages

ISBN

978-3-83762-954-5

Link

Last Update

31-Mar-2026

Keywords

Art & Art History

Description

At Face Value &Beyond comprises papers that were delivered at international conferences over a course of about 10 years. Although the particular contributions were all guided by an interest in Visual Culture, the single papers were created in response to particular conference themes. Hence, the contexts in which they were delivered were highly diversified and sometimes widely apart concerning their disciplines. On these grounds, it seemed a difficult if not impossible task to legitimize the co-existence of these texts in one book. Interestingly, though, in hindsight and while revising these conference papers, it turned out that there were a few...