Photography Performing Humor
Samenvatting
New perspectives on humor within photography.
Despite the ubiquitous presence of photographic humor in art and popular media, the phenomenon has as yet received very little scholarly attention. Focusing on staged humor rather than on comic effects of snapshot photography, this volume brings together leading scholars in the field addressing humor performed in front of the camera, often specifically created for the camera, and the performative joke-work done by the medium itself. A first section explores how photography, due to its “shattering” qualities, turns into a privileged medium for eliciting humorous effects and how humor can be discerned within the photographic event. A second section discusses the toolbox of photographic trickery (photomontage, double exposure and cinematic movement) that allows photography to mock itself. The book closes with a section on photographic wit in conceptual art, both in canonized and more locally distinct practices.
With artists’ pages from Paulien Oltheten, Lieven Segers and David Helbich
Specificaties
Inhoudsopgave
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Mieke Bleyen & Liesbeth Decan
Part I
Finding Humor in the Photographic Event
Photography and Laughter’s Shattered Articulation
Esther Leslie
Falling as Art: On Orchestrated Accidents in Photographic Practice in Poland
Katarzyna Ruchel-Stockmans
Adding a Giggle: Lee Friedlander’s Practice of the “Shadow Self-Portrait”
Ann Kristin Krahn
Performing the Performance Documentation
Kevin Artheron
Part II
Making Fun of Photography through Tricks and Montage
Ghosts Just for Laughs: Spirit Photography and Debunking Humor
Louis Kaplan
Comedy Performs Photography: Imaginations of Photography in Silent Film Comedies
Hilde D’haeyere
Feminism, Laughter, and Photomontage: Comedic Effect and Grete Stern’s Sueños
Anna Corrigan & Susana S. Martins
Part III
Photographic Wit in Conceptual Art
Keeping a Straight Face: Photography and the Performance of Conceptual Art
Heather Diack
“No Photographs Allowed”: Conceptual Wit in Some Belgian Photo-based Artists’ Books
Johan Pas
Laughter Protocol: Elements of Humor in Proto- and Conceptual Photography in Croatia
Sandra Križić Roban
About the Authors
Artist’s pages by Lieven Segers
Artist’s pages by David Helbich
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