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Spoken Image : Photography and Language - Clive Scott

Spoken Image

Photography and Language

By: Clive Scott

Paperback | 1 January 1999

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Considering the nature of photography, this book examines the language used in titles, captions and commentaries, particularly as they relate to documentary photography, photojournalism and fashion photography. It addresses the question of how the photograph communicates its message, with or without the age of language, and discusses single and "compound" photographs, such as David Hockney's, to show differences in the way in which they convey ideas. The author looks at the work of film-makers such as Antonioni and Greenaway to contrast filmic methods of narration with those of photography. The magazine photo-story and the photo-essay receive attention, as well as the postmodern photo-sequence as employed by Victor Burgin and other artists. Scott's conclusion is that photography has arrived at a level of communicative sophistication equal to, and often in conjunction with, that of modern textual narratives.
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'In this excellent study, Scott argues that while language is deemed crucial to the interpretation of photography, we have insufficient information about how language is used in relation to various photographic genres ... Readers interested in photography, film, postmodernism, and the nature of narrative itself will find Scott's book captivating, and, at times, positively breathtaking.' - British Journal of Aesthetics 'The Spoken Image displays its author's deep knowledge of a wide range of literature on meaning and photography, and the book is well produced and illustrated.' - Times Higher Education

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