At face value & beyond : photographic constructions of reality / Monika Schwärzler.

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How to account for the peculiar attraction of certain photos? How to pinpoint the specific use of images in particular contexts? Monika Schwärzler presents a variety of photographic case studies exploring visual phenomena from the point of view of media analysis, as well as from sociological, aesthetic, and psychoanalytic perspectives. The topics range from a new reading of Thomas Struth's street photographs to CERN photos with their charged rhetoric, from the assault of photographic close-ups to speculations on an anonymous slide collection featuring a woman with an ever-present white handbag. The book is intended for an audience receptive to the analytical appeal of images, prepared to go beyond what can be taken at face value.-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-187).

In English; one paper translated from the original German.

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgment -- Inhalt -- Introductory Remarks -- Conscious and Semi-Conscious States of the Camera: Comments on a History of Photographic Parapraxes -- Dressed to Suffer and Redeem: Staged Photography Featuring Biblical Narratives -- Blocked View and Impeded Vision: An Affective Response to the Photographs of Maria Hahnenkamp and Thomas Struth -- Unedited Glamor: The Vienna Opera Ball and Its Rendition by Network Cameras -- Lost in Pleasure: Mad Joy in Images of Youth Culture -- Death Can Wait: Images of Old Age and Dying in Austrian Hospice Campaigns -- "The Beast": On the Photographic Staging of the Large Hadron Collider at the Nuclear Research Center in Geneva -- Denigrative Views: On the Deconstruction of Visages in Print Media -- The White Handbag: Photography and Ownership -- References.

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