Photography Performing Humor
by Liesbeth Decan, Mieke Bleyen (eds)
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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
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Contributors: Kevin Atherton (National College of Art and Design, Dublin), Anna Corrigan and Susana S. Martins (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa), Hilde D’haeyere (KASK School of Arts of University College Ghent), Heather Diack (University of Miami), Louis Kaplan (University of Toronto), Ann Kristin Krahn (Braunschweig University of the Arts), Sandra Križić Roban (Institute of Art History, Zagreb), Esther Leslie (Birkbeck University of London), Johan Pas (Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp), Katarzyna Ruchel-Stockmans (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
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En examinant l’humour en photographie, ce volume propose un parcours dans l’histoire du médium et offre l’occasion aux lecteurs de multiples potentialités de découvrir, ou redécouvrir, des corpus souvent négligés. L’intérêt de cette réflexion collective réside finalement plus dans la revalorisation de ces objets photographiques, culturels et artistiques considérés comme anecdotiques que dans une véritable conceptualisation de ce que serait un humour performatif.
Valérie Morisson, Focales n° 4 : Photographies mises en espaces, mis à jour le 19/05/2020, URL : https://focales.univ-st-etienne.fr/index.php?id=2792
The book is well designed, with black-and-white illustrations in every chapter. The essays are bookended by colourful (and humorous) ‘artist’s pages’ by Paulien Oltheten, Lieven Segers and David Helbich, demonstrating the editors’ stated commitment to giving the book ‘both a theoretical and practice-based component’(p.22). Stills from Oltheten’s La Défense, The Venturing Gaze, which open the book (Fig.9), exemplify the implicit self-reflexivity of much photographic practice. Oltheten includes subtitles of humorous comments made by the people photographed, making subjects of the camera and the photographer themselves. Bleyen’s and Decan’s book will be useful to scholars and those with an interest in photography and humour theory, as well as individuals interested more generally in the affective turn in art criticism.
Seth Graham, The Burlington Magazine | 162 | March 2020
Seth Graham, The Burlington Magazine | 162 | March 2020
Author Biography
Liesbeth Decan teaches theory and history of photography at LUCA School of Arts Brussels, where she is also the coordinator of the research group Photography Expanded.
Mieke Bleyen is a postdoctoral researcher at the Lieven Gevaert Research Centre for Photography, Art and Visual Culture and the Institute for Cultural Studies at the KU Leuven.
Leuven University Press
Leuven University Press, established in 1971 under the auspices of KU Leuven, is an ambitious academic press of international standing.Today the press publishes high-quality academic titles in a broad range of fields including music, art & theory, media & visual culture, text & literature, history & archaeology, philosophy & religion, society & migration and law & economics. We publish approximately forty new titles a year by authors from all over the world. We publish in English, but also offer room for publications in Dutch or French.
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- Publisher Leuven University Press
- Publication Date March 2019
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9789462701656
- Publication Country or regionBelgium
- FormatPaperback
- Primary Price 39.50 EUR
- Pages216
- ReadershipProfessional and Scholarly
- Publish StatusPublished
- Copyright Year2019
- Dimensions230 × 170 mm
- SeriesLieven Gevaert Series
- Series Part26
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