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Category Archives: Photography in Fiction
Photography in Fiction: The Mathematics of Love
The Mathematics of Love by Emma Darwin is about two people, separated by two and a half centuries, whose lives intersect in a story woven from memory and time. Stephen Fairhurst is a veteran of the Peninsular War and Waterloo, which … Continue reading
Mid Century New York – Art & Photography 2
This U3AC course continues to stimulate thoughts about links between poetry and the other arts, including photography. This week we looked at the work of American poet John Ashbury. His poem ‘The picture of Little J. A. in a prospect … Continue reading
Photography and (in) Fiction/Poetry: Frank O’Hara
I’ve been introduced to the work of Frank O’Hara through the Cambridge U3A. O’Hara (1926-66) was an American writer, poet, and art critic. He was a curator for international exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art (briefly overlapping with John … Continue reading
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Photography in Fiction/Poetry: The Book of the Dead
The death toll at the Hawks Nest Tunnel, West Virginia, is considered to be one of the worst disasters in American industrial history. The death toll from silicosis and occupational lung disease is put at 476 to 1,000, it’s impossible … Continue reading
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Photography in Fiction: Blind Woman’s Buff
Photo journalist and Magnum co-founder Robert Capa famously said, ‘If your photos aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough’. He may have meant close enough physically to the subject (my interpretation), or perhaps psychologically, or engaged sufficiently in the story. In his … Continue reading
Photography in Fiction: Held, Ann Michaels
Held, Michaels’s third novel, is divided into twelve fragmented sections that jump between 1902 and 2025, not in chronological order. It is set mostly in England, but also in other parts of Europe; and is peopled by a large cast … Continue reading
Photography in Fiction: W. G. Sebald 1944-2001
W. G. or Max Sebald, was a German writer and academic. At the time of his death in 2001, he was recognized widely for his contribution to world literature. His works, largely concerned with the themes of memory and decay, … Continue reading
Photography in Fiction: Pariah Genius, Iain Sinclair
When I went to buy Pariah Genius I searched the photography and biography sections without success. The assistant said try fiction and that’s where it was. Photographer John Deakin (b.1912) died, largely unknown and unmourned, in 1972. He is now best … Continue reading
Photography in Fiction (Literature)
‘The two most revolutionary technological advances in human consciousness are the invention of writing and then the ability to record life as-it-is in the form of photography and sound recording.’ So argues Ed Simon in his essay The Miracle of … Continue reading
Photography in Fiction – Europa?
This is more a case of photography and fiction rather than photography in fiction. Photographs, in the form of ID images, make only a brief appearance, in the story ‘The AK-47 of pick-up Trucks’. ‘EUROPA? is a collaboration between a … Continue reading
Photography in Fiction – Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida — itinerant war photographer, who loves his trusted Nikon, also atheist, closet gay man and high stakes poker player – ‘has woken up dead in what seems like a celestial visa office’. His dismembered body is … Continue reading
Photography in Fiction – I Could Read the Sky
I Could Read the Sky is a distinctive and rare integration of photography and fiction: it ‘is a collaboration in the shape of a lyrical novel, between writer Timothy O’Grady and photographer Steve Pyke’. In intense, often searing prose, it … Continue reading
Catching the surface
My coffee and walking friend, DaveH, knew that I was talking about voyeurism to the U3AC Arts Forum on Wednesday and sent me this poem. I Am A Cameraman They suffer, and I catch only the surface. The rest is … Continue reading
Photography in Fiction – Various
In the penultimate section of On Photography (1973), ‘The Image-World’, Susan Sontag draws on how photography is treated in six works of fiction in her exploration of the nature of the medium. They are given here in chronological order. Pierre; … Continue reading