L’écrit et l’image dans l’album photographique contemporain ou le retour de la forme album

  • Joschke, Christian
Publication date
January 2012
Publisher
PERSEE Program

Abstract

One can observe, between the 2000s and the 2010s, the revival of the photographic album as a means of artistic expression. This specific form borrows from the private album -in its precarious and experimental character, its play between writing and image, and the brute materiality of its medium. In many ways, it seems as though we are witnessing a return of the photo/text medium common in the 1970s, a practice that was supported by conceptual approaches. If the intertwining of text and image in the 1970s served as a means of theorizing the photographic medium itself, however, recent approaches to photographic albums instead appear to abandon theory towards a more aesthetic and playful use of the photo/ text medium.On constate, dans les anné...

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