[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: The Stories Photographs Tell (4/1/06; collection)

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From: Jeanne Perreault <perreaul@ucalgary.ca>

CFP: The Stories Photographs Tell

Editors: Jeanne Perreault, Linda Warley and Marlene Kadar

We are inviting essays for a volume that undertakes an interdisciplinary
investigation of the constructions and reconstructions of identity, 
reality, and
meaning through the use of photographs. 'Reading' photographs means thinking
about that triangular relationship between 'author' (the one who takes the
image), 'subject' (the person/s or things in the images) and 'reader' 
(the one
who looks). Creative and aesthetic issues intersect with the psychological,
political and historical as the viewer interprets the reality of the 
photograph
into the multiple realities of the scene photographed and the experience of
viewing. We are particularly interested in the ease of dislocation from
intention to use, from object to image, from historical moment to the 
evolution
of meaning. We welcome discussions of photographs linked with text and
auto/biographical uses of images.

Essays might consider the ambiguity of photographs taken at moments not
necessarily chosen by the subject and the issues involved when 
photographs that
were originally intended to serve one purpose are made or allowed to serve
another. The technological malleability of photographs has a direct 
bearing on
these problems as do photographic self-portraiture and the performativity of
photography.

Proposals are requested by 01 April 2006 and completed essays by 01 
August 2006.

Please send 500 word proposal as an attachment to <perreaul@ucalgary.ca>

Prof. Jeanne Perreault
Dept. Of English
2500 University Drive, NW
University of Calgary,
Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 1N4



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