Inventing literary photobooks

Authors

  • Ana Luiza Fernandes Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3598-2916
  • Joao Queiroz Federal University of Juiz de Fora

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14195/2182-8830_9-1_1

Keywords:

photobook, literary photobook, intermediality, photography and text

Abstract

This article introduces a special issue of the journal MATLIT on "literary photobooks". As we know, the concept of photobook mixes up with many other concepts – artist's book, book art, bookwork, art book, book object, illustrated book, conceptual book, photographic book, photographic album – from several fields of research – intermediality and multimodality studies, comparative literature, photography theory, general semiotics, art theory, history of art. In this issue the reader will find several attempts to describe and analyze photobooks, and a discussion of how best to define and classify them, according to different theoretical perspectives and backgrounds.

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Author Biography

Ana Luiza Fernandes, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro

Ana Fernandes é doutoranda em Literatura Comparada pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação em Literatura, Cultura e Contemporaneidade, do departamento de Letras, da Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio). É mestre pelo programa ​de Pós-Graduação em Comunicação - Estética, Redes e Linguagens, da Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF), e pesquisadora associada ao Iconicity Research Group (//iconicity-group.org), no Instituto de Artes e Design (IAD), da mesma universidade. Seus interesses de pesquisa incluem: intermidialidade, estudos interartes, fotolivro, fotolivro de literatura, semiótica, semiótica de Peirce.

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Published

2021-11-17

How to Cite

Fernandes, Ana Luiza, and João Queiroz. 2021. “Inventing Literary Photobooks”. MATLIT: Materialities of Literature 9 (1):11-16. https://doi.org/10.14195/2182-8830_9-1_1.

Issue

Vol. 9 No. 1 (2021): Literary Photobooks: Theory and History

Section

Secção Temática | Thematic Section

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