The Truth in Photography : : Oxford Literary Review Volume 32, Issue 2 / / Michael Naas.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Naas, Michael,
• MitwirkendeR: Benjamin, Andrew,; Derrida, Jacques,; Farrell Krell, David,; Grant, Ben,; Judaken, Jonathan,; Marder, Elissa,; Miller, Elaine P.,; Naas, Michael,; Rainford, Lydia,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Oxford Literary Review Special Issues : LRSI
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (128 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; The Truth in Photography --; Snapshot --; Articles --; Aletheia --; What, in truth, is Photography? Notes after Kracauer --; Primal Phenomena and Photography --; Dark Room Readings: Scenes of Maternal Photography --; Fiction --; Melville’s Couvade --; Book Reviews --; Michael Syrotinski, Deconstruction and the Postcolonial --; Judeities, ed. Bettina Bergo, Joseph Cohen, Raphael Zagury-Orly --; Asja Szafraniec, Beckett, Derrida, and the Event of Literature --; Contributors
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781474471237; 9783110780468
• DOI: 10.1515/9781474471237
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Michael Naas.

From the very invention of photography in the early part of the nineteenth century right up through the most recent developments in photography through digital technology, theorists have never stopped asking whether there is in fact any truth at all in photography. The essays collected in this volume consider this and related questions (for example, the relationship between photography and representation, history, time, narrative, memory, mourning, and so on) through the works of Walter Benjamin, Hélène Cixous, and Jacques Derrida, among others. The volume opens with a previously untranslated essay by Derrida on photography, entitled, precisely, Aletheia (Truth), and it concludes with ‘Melville’s Couvade’, an original work of fiction on the theme of photography by David Farrell Krell.