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In and Out of Sight - Modernist Writing and the Photographic Unseen (Paperback)
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In and Out of Sight - Modernist Writing and the Photographic Unseen (Paperback)
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In a post-digital media landscape tracked endlessly by streams and
feeds of images, it is clearer than ever that photography is an art
poised between arresting singularity and ambiguous plurality.
Drawing on work in visual culture studies that emphasizes the
interplay between still and moving images, In and Out of Sight
provides a provocative new account of the relationship between
photography and modernist literature-a literature which has long
been considered to trace, in its formal experimentation, the
influence of modern visual technologies. Making pioneering claims
about the importance of photography to the writing of Gertrude
Stein, Jean Toomer, John Dos Passos, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, Alix
Beeston traverses the history of photography in the late nineteenth
and early twentieth centuries. From the composite experiments of
Francis Galton to the epic portrait project of August Sander; from
the surrealist self-fashioning of Claude Cahun to the
reappropriation of lynching photographs by black activist groups;
from the collectable postcards of Broadway stars to the glamour
shots of Hollywood celebrities-these and other serialized
photographic projects provide essential contexts for understanding
the fragmentary, composite forms of literary modernism. In a series
of richly detailed literary analyses, Beeston argues that the gaps
and intervals of the composite literary text model the visual
syntax of photography-as well as its silences, absences, and
equivocations. In them, the social and political order of modernity
is negotiated and reshaped. Moving in and out of these textual
openings, In and Out of Sight pursues the fleeting, visible and
invisible figure of the woman-in-series, who recasts absence and
silence as forms of presence and witness. This shadowy figure
emerges as central to the conceptual space of modernist
literature-a terrain not only gendered but radically constructed
around the instability of female bodies and their desires.
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