TY - BOOK ID - 8780120 TI - Picturing ourselves : photography and autobiography PY - 1997 SN - 0226731472 0226731464 9786611223984 0226731480 1281223980 9780226731483 9780226731476 9780226731469 9780226731469 PB - Chicago (Ill.): University of Chicago press DB - UniCat KW - 82-94 KW - 82:7 KW - 77 KW - Dagboek. Memoires. Autobiografie KW - Literatuur en kunst KW - Fotografie KW - Autobiography. KW - Photography KW - Self-realization in literature. KW - Philosophy. KW - 82:7 Literatuur en kunst KW - 82-94 Dagboek. Memoires. Autobiografie KW - 77 Fotografie KW - 77.01 KW - CDL KW - Autobiography KW - Self-realization in literature KW - Autobiographies KW - Egodocuments KW - Memoirs KW - Biography as a literary form KW - Philosophy KW - History and criticism KW - Technique KW - Benjamin, Walter, KW - Strindberg, August, KW - Twain, Mark, KW - Wolf, Christa. KW - Volf, Krista KW - Ihlenfeld, Christa Margarete KW - Tvėn, Mark, KW - Tuėĭn, Mark, KW - Tuwayn, Mārk, KW - Twayn, Mārk, KW - Tʻu-wen, Ma-kʻo, KW - Tven, M. KW - Touen, Makū, KW - Twain, Marek, KW - Make Tuwen, KW - Tuwen, Make, KW - Make Teviin, KW - Твен, Марк, KW - Touain, Mark, KW - טבןַ, מרק, KW - טוויין, מארק, KW - טוויין, מרק, KW - טווין, מארק, KW - טווין, מרק, KW - טווען, מארק, KW - טוין, מרק, KW - טװען, מארק, KW - טװײן, מארק, KW - 馬克吐温, KW - Clemens, Samuel Langhorne, KW - Snodgrass, Quintus Curtius, KW - Conte, Louis de, KW - Strindberg, Johan August, KW - Sṭrindberg, A., KW - Sutorintoberuku, KW - Strindbergs, Augusts, KW - Sṭrindberg, O., KW - Strindberg, Ogust, KW - סטאינדבערג, אויגוסט, KW - סטרינבערג, אויגוסט KW - סטרינבערג, אויגוסט, KW - סטרינבערג, אױגוסט KW - סטרינגבערג, אווגוסט, KW - סטרינדבערג, אווגוסט, KW - סטרינדבערג, אויגוסט KW - סטרינדבערג, אויגוסט, KW - סטרינדבערג, אוידוסט KW - סטרינדבערג, אױגוסט, KW - סטרינדבערג, א. KW - סטרינדברג, אבגוסט, KW - סטרינדברג, אוגוסט KW - סטרינדברג, אוגוסט, KW - סטרינדברג, א. KW - סטרנדנערג, אויגוסט KW - Стриндберг, Огуст, KW - Benjamin, W. KW - Benjamin, Walter KW - Tuvāyn, Mārk, KW - تواين، مارک KW - Tvāyn, Mārk, KW - Strindberg, August KW - Strindberg, Johan August KW - Sṭrindberg, A. KW - Sutorintoberuku KW - Strindbergs, Augusts KW - Sṭrindberg, O. KW - Strindberg, Ogust KW - Twain, Mark KW - Tvėn, Mark KW - Tuėĭn, Mark KW - Tuwayn, Mārk KW - Twayn, Mārk KW - Tʻu-wen, Ma-kʻo KW - Touen, Makū KW - Twain, Marek KW - Make Tuwen KW - Tuwen, Make KW - Make Teviin KW - Твен, Марк KW - Touain, Mark KW - Tuvāyn, Mārk KW - Tvāyn, Mārk KW - Clemens, Samuel Langhorne KW - Snodgrass, Quintus Curtius KW - Conte, Louis de KW - Holz, Detlef, KW - Banyaming, KW - Benʼyamin, Varutā, KW - Peñcamin̲, Vālṭṭar, KW - Binyamin, Ṿalṭer, KW - בנימין, ולטר KW - בנימין, ולטר, KW - ולטר, בנימין, KW - Penyamin, Palt'ŏ, KW - 벤야민 발터, KW - Wolf, Christa KW - Views on photography. KW - photos, photographs, photograph, photographer, pictures, illustrated, illustrations, autobiographical, true story, realistic, framing, identity, art, artwork, image, mirroring, writing, observation, being, camera, film, politics, political, 1800s, 1900s, history, historical, literature, literary, academic, scholarly, research, childhood, nazi, national, socialist. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:8780120 AB - Photography has transformed the way we picture ourselves. Although photographs seem to "prove" our existence at a given point in time, they also demonstrate the impossibility of framing our multiple and fragmented selves. As Linda Haverty Rugg convincingly shows, photography's double take on self-image mirrors the concerns of autobiographers, who see the self as simultaneously divided (in observing/being) and unified by the autobiographical act. Rugg tracks photography's impact on the formation of self-image through the study of four literary autobiographers concerned with the transformative power of photography. Obsessed with self-image, Mark Twain and August Strindberg both attempted (unsuccessfully) to integrate photographs into their autobiographies. While Twain encouraged photographers, he was wary of fakery and kept a fierce watch on the distribution of his photographic image. Strindberg, believing that photographs had occult power, preferred to photograph himself. Because of their experiences under National Socialism, Walter Benjamin and Christa Wolf feared the dangerously objectifying power of photographs and omitted them from their autobiographical writings. Yet Benjamin used them in his photographic conception of history, which had its testing ground in his often-ignored Berliner Kindheit um 1900. And Christa Wolf's narrator in Patterns of Childhood attempts to reclaim her childhood from the Nazis by reconstructing mental images of lost family photographs. Confronted with multiple and conflicting images of themselves, all four of these writers are torn between the knowledge that texts, photographs, and indeed selves are haunted by undecidability and the desire for the returned glance of a single self. ER -