Light Writing and Life Writing: Photography in Autobiography

Timothy Dow Adams

Light Writing and Life Writing: Photography in Autobiography

On the surface, the use of photography in autobiography appears to have a straightforward purpose: to illustrate and corroborate the text. But in the wake of poststructuralism, the role of photography in autobiography is far from simple or one-dimensional. Both media are increasingly self-conscious, argues Timothy Adams, and combining them intensifies rather than reduces the complexity and ambiguity of each taken separately.




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