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A Box of Photographs by Roger Grenier (2013, Hardcover)

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Most attempts to generalize about photography as a medium run up against our experience of the photographs themselves. We live with photos and cameras every day, and philosophies of the photographic image do little to shake our intimate sense of how we produce photographs and what they mean to us. In this book that is equal parts memoir and intellectual and cultural history, French writer Roger Grenier contemplates the ways that photography can change the course of a life, reflecting along the way on the history of photography and its practitioners. Unfolding in brief, charming vignettes, A Box of Photographs evokes Grenier's childhood in Pau, his war years, and his working life at the Gallimard publishing house in Paris. Throughout these personal stories, Grenier subtly weaves the story of a lifetime of practicing and thinking about photography and its heroes--Henri Cartier-Bresson, Weegee, Alfred Eisenstaedt, George Brassa , Inge Morath, and others. Adding their own insights about photography to the narrative are a striking range of writers, thinkers, and artists, from Lewis Carroll, Albert Camus, and Arthur Schopenhauer to Susan Sontag, Edgar Degas, and Eug ne Delacroix. Even cameras themselves come to life and take on personalities: an Agfa accompanies Grenier on grueling military duty in Algeria, a Voigtlander almost gets him killed by German soldiers during the liberation of Paris, and an ill-fated Olympus drowns in a boating accident. Throughout, Grenier draws us into the private life of photographs, seeking the secrets they hold for him and for us. A valedictory salute to a lost world of darkrooms, proofs, and the gummed paper corners of old photo albums, A Box of Photographs is a warm look at the most honest of life's mirrors.

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Publisher
University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
0226308316
ISBN-13
9780226308319
eBay Product ID (ePID)
143570824

Product Key Features

Book Title
Box of Photographs
Author
Roger Grenier
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
European / French, General, Literary, Criticism
Publication Year
2013
Genre
Photography, Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism
Number of Pages
120 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
8.8in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
5.6in
Item Weight
10.1 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
Pq2613.R4323z46 2013
Reviews
Delightful. . . . This short book--just over a hundred pages and illustrated with snapshots--contains multitudes., Through charming anecdotes, Grenier blends his own history with that of photography, and explains how the medium has influenced his entire life. He begins with early photographic history and its practitioners and smoothly weaves these histories into his own memories. However, since Grenier developed film in his family's pharmacy-cum-photo lab, his connection to photography goes well beyond mere appreciation. . . . Recommended for those who practice or appreciate photography and its history.
Table of Content
"Talking about photography . . ." Posing for Portraits Baby Box Agfa A Summer in the Lab Negative of a Nude All That's Left Is the Smile Because of a Leica A New Agfa Backlighting On the Téléphérique A Photo of the Train Station at Tarbes The Poor Man's Rollei A Victim of Heidegger The Curse of the Voigtländer Another Woman and a Leica One of the Fine Arts Colors Forcing The Jar Charles Dullin's Bedroom Saint-Germain-des-Prés The Saxophonist Destinies One, Two, Three! The Canon and the Photographer Atrocities The Beach at Ostia An Angel of the Streets News Photos Gisèle's Grudge Police Interference To Each His Photographer An Official Image A Source In Exile The Swan Song of the Olympus Of Dogs and Goats The Dialectic of the Portrait Translator's Note Translator's Acknowledgments
Copyright Date
2013
Dewey Decimal
848.9203
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes

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