À la lettre (près) : autoportraits de Ralph Eugene Meatyard
This paper proposes to question American photographer Ralph Eugene Meatyard’s tendency to integrate various manifestations of the written sign into a number of his self-portraits. To what extent does the mediation of scriptural forms (if indeed “mediation” is the appropriate term) influence the mode...
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description | This paper proposes to question American photographer Ralph Eugene Meatyard’s tendency to integrate various manifestations of the written sign into a number of his self-portraits. To what extent does the mediation of scriptural forms (if indeed “mediation” is the appropriate term) influence the modes of photographic self-representation as the relation between what can be seen and what can be read in these self-portraits seems to oscillate between equivalence, substitution, complementarity and interference? After a short reminder of the theoretical and historical links between photographic self-portraits and writing, five of such self-portraits by Meatyard are analyzed in order to shed light on this issue. |
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spelling | doaj-art-c6d70263b5924f7dbc1327f9f1ef43312025-01-09T12:53:08ZengLaboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA)E-REA1638-17182023-06-0120210.4000/erea.16529À la lettre (près) : autoportraits de Ralph Eugene MeatyardJean-Marc VICTORThis paper proposes to question American photographer Ralph Eugene Meatyard’s tendency to integrate various manifestations of the written sign into a number of his self-portraits. To what extent does the mediation of scriptural forms (if indeed “mediation” is the appropriate term) influence the modes of photographic self-representation as the relation between what can be seen and what can be read in these self-portraits seems to oscillate between equivalence, substitution, complementarity and interference? After a short reminder of the theoretical and historical links between photographic self-portraits and writing, five of such self-portraits by Meatyard are analyzed in order to shed light on this issue.https://journals.openedition.org/erea/16529intermedialityRalph Eugene Meatyardphotographic self-portrait |
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title | À la lettre (près) : autoportraits de Ralph Eugene Meatyard |
title_full | À la lettre (près) : autoportraits de Ralph Eugene Meatyard |
title_fullStr | À la lettre (près) : autoportraits de Ralph Eugene Meatyard |
title_full_unstemmed | À la lettre (près) : autoportraits de Ralph Eugene Meatyard |
title_short | À la lettre (près) : autoportraits de Ralph Eugene Meatyard |
title_sort | a la lettre pres autoportraits de ralph eugene meatyard |
topic | intermediality Ralph Eugene Meatyard photographic self-portrait |
url | https://journals.openedition.org/erea/16529 |
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