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Photography, narrative, time : imaging our forensic imagination / by Greg Battye.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Critical photographyPublication details: Bristol [u.a.] : Intellect, 2014.Edition: 1. publDescription: XB, 189 S. : IllISBN:
  • 1783201770
  • 9781783201778
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 770.1 BAT
Summary: Providing a wide-ranging account of the narrative properties of photographs, Greg Battye focuses on the storytelling power of a single image, rather than the sequence. Drawing on ideas from painting, drawing, film, video, and multimedia, he applies contemporary research and theories drawn from cognitive science and psychology to the analysis of photographs. Using genuine forensic photographs of crime scenes and accidents, the book mines human drama and historical and sociological authenticity to argue for the centrality of the perception and representation of time in photographic narrativity.
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Providing a wide-ranging account of the narrative properties of photographs, Greg Battye focuses on the storytelling power of a single image, rather than the sequence. Drawing on ideas from painting, drawing, film, video, and multimedia, he applies contemporary research and theories drawn from cognitive science and psychology to the analysis of photographs. Using genuine forensic photographs of crime scenes and accidents, the book mines human drama and historical and sociological authenticity to argue for the centrality of the perception and representation of time in photographic narrativity.

Providing a wide-ranging account of the narrative properties of photographs, Greg Battye focuses on the storytelling power of a single image, rather than the sequence. Drawing on ideas from painting, drawing, film, video, and multimedia, he applies contemporary research and theories drawn from cognitive science and psychology to the analysis of photographs. Using genuine forensic photographs of crime scenes and accidents, the book mines human drama and historical and sociological authenticity to argue for the centrality of the perception and representation of time in photographic narrativity.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • List of Figures (p. vii)
  • Foreword (p. ix)
  • Preface (p. xi)
  • Introduction (p. 1)
  • Chapter 1 A Different Kind of Look: Picturing Narrative (p. 13)
  • Chapter 2 What Narrative Is (p. 33)
  • Chapter 3 Made for Each Other: People and Photography (p. 51)
  • Chapter 4 Time (p. 69)
  • Chapter 5 The Eternity of a Moment: Evidence (p. 89)
  • Chapter 6 A Cognitive Turn (p. 111)
  • Chapter 7 Scripts and Schemata (p. 129)
  • Chapter 8 Possible Worlds (p. 143)
  • Postscript (p. 171)
  • References (p. 175)
  • Index (p. 183)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Greg Battye is professor in the Faculty of Arts and Design at the University of Canberra, Australia.

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