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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Main Author: Jean-Marc VICTOR
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Laboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA) 2023-06-01
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/erea/16529
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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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À la lettre (près) : autoportraits de Ralph Eugene Meatyard
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Ralph Eugene Meatyard
photographic self-portrait
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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