TY - BOOK ID - 46182101 TI - Photography performing humor. AU - Decan, Liesbeth AU - Bleyen, Mieke PY - 2019 VL - 26 SN - 9789462701656 9462701652 9462701652 PB - Leuven Leuven University Press DB - UniCat KW - Photography, Artistic KW - Wit and humor in art KW - fotografie KW - fotografiegeschiedenis KW - kunst KW - kunst en humor KW - fotografie en humor KW - twintigste eeuw KW - negentiende eeuw KW - eenentwintigste eeuw KW - fotomontage KW - collages KW - conceptuele kunst KW - concept art KW - conceptual art KW - fotoboeken KW - 77.03 KW - Academic collection KW - Artistic photography KW - Photography KW - Photography, Pictorial KW - Pictorial photography KW - Art KW - Humor in art KW - Aesthetics KW - 760.4 KW - humor KW - fotocollages KW - performance KW - Friedlander, Lee KW - Stern, Grete KW - fotogeschiedenis KW - fotografie als kunst KW - Photography [Artistic ] KW - photomontages KW - snapshots KW - Photography, Artistic. KW - Wit and humor in art. KW - Photography in art KW - Photomontage KW - photomontages [visual works] UR - http://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:46182101 AB - Despite the ubiquitous presence of photographic humor in art and popular media, the phenomenon has as yet received very little scholarly attention. Focusing on staged humor rather than on comic effects of snapshot photography, this volume brings together leading scholars in the field addressing humor performed in front of the camera, often specifically created for the camera, and the performative joke-work done by the medium itself. A first section explores how photography, due to its "shattering" qualities, turns into a privileged medium for eliciting humorous effects and how humor can be discerned within the photographic event. A second section discusses the toolbox of photographic trickery (photomontage, double exposure and cinematic movement) that allows photography to mock itself. The book closes with a section on photographic wit in conceptual art, both in canonized and more locally distinct practices. ER -