Photography performing humor
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Leuven
Leuven University Press
2019
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| Schriftenreihe: | Lieven Gevaert Series
vol. 26 |
| Schlagworte: |
Trick
> Ästhetik
> Ironie
> Humor
> Concept-art
> Fotografie
> Fototechnik
> Komik
> Aufsatzsammlung
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| Produktionsangaben: | 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 |
| ISBN: | 9462701652 9789462701656 978-94-6270-165-6 |