Photography, Narrative, Time: Imaging our Forensic Imagination

Cramerotti, Alfredo, Battye, Greg

Providing a wide-ranging account of the narrative properties of photographs, Greg Battye focuses on the storytelling power of a single image, rather than the sequence. Drawing on ideas from painting, drawing, film, video and multimedia, he applies contemporary research and theories drawn from cognitive science and psychology to the analysis of photographs. Using genuine forensic photographs of crime scenes and accidents, the book mines human drama and historical and sociological authenticity to argue for the centrality of the perception and representation of time in photographic narrativity.

EAN

9781783201778

Publisher

Intellect Books

Published

15 June 2014

Pages

200