Phototextualities: Intersections of Photography and Narrative

How are photographs understood as narratives? In this book twenty-two original critical essays tackle this overarching question in a series of case studies moving chronologically across the history of photography from the 1840s to the twenty-first century. The contributors explore the intersections of photography with history, memory, autobiography, time, death, mapping, the discourse of Orientalism, digital technology, and representations of race and gender. The essays range in focus from the role of photographic images in the memorialization of the Holocaust, the Argentine "Dirty Warm," and Japanese American internment camps through Man Ray's classic image "Noire et blanche" and Nan Goldin's "The Ballad of Sexual Dependency" to the function of family albums in nineteenth-century England and America.

Hughes and Noble bring together a collection of studies exploring how photography has intersected with history and the human story from its invention in the 19th century to the computer age.

Alex Hughes is professor of French at the University of Birmingham, UK.

Andrea Noble teaches in the Department of Spanish at the University of Durham, England.