Photography Performing Humor

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-94-6270-165-6
Verlag: LEUVEN UNIV PR

Buch, Englisch, Band 26, 216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 169 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 651 g

Reihe: Lieven Gevaert Series

New perspectives on humor within photography

Despite the ubiquitous presence
of photographic humor in art and popular media, the phenomenon has as yet
received very little scholarly attention. Focusing on staged humor rather than
on comic effects of snapshot photography, this volume brings together leading
scholars in the field addressing humor performed in front of the camera, often
specifically created for the camera, and the performative joke-work done by the
medium itself. A first section explores how photography, due to its
“shattering” qualities, turns into a privileged medium for eliciting humorous
effects and how humor can be discerned within the photographic event. A second
section discusses the toolbox of photographic trickery (photomontage, double
exposure and cinematic movement) that allows photography to mock itself. The book
closes with a section on photographic wit in conceptual art, both in canonized
and more locally distinct practices.

With artists’ pages
from Paulien Oltheten, Lieven Segers and David Helbich

This publication is
GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).

Contributors: Kevin Atherton (National College of Art and Design,
Dublin), Anna Corrigan and Susana S. Martins (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa),
Hilde D’haeyere (KASK School of Arts of University College Ghent), Heather
Diack (University of Miami), Louis Kaplan (University of Toronto), Ann Kristin
Krahn (Braunschweig University of the Arts), Sandra Križic Roban (Institute of
Art History, Zagreb), Esther Leslie (Birkbeck University of London), Johan Pas
(Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp), Katarzyna Ruchel-Stockmans (Vrije
Universiteit Brussel)

Autoren/Hrsg.

Decan, Liesbeth

Bleyen, Mieke

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Fotografie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Artist’s pages by Paulien Oltheten
Acknowledgements
IntroductionMieke Bleyen & Liesbeth Decan
Part IFinding Humor in the Photographic Event
Photography and Laughter’s Shattered ArticulationEsther LeslieFalling as Art: On Orchestrated Accidents in Photographic Practice in PolandKatarzyna Ruchel-StockmansAdding a Giggle: Lee Friedlander’s Practice of the “Shadow Self-Portrait”Ann Kristin KrahnPerforming the Performance DocumentationKevin Artheron
Part IIMaking Fun of Photography through Tricks and Montage
Ghosts Just for Laughs: Spirit Photography and Debunking HumorLouis KaplanComedy Performs Photography: Imaginations of Photography in Silent Film ComediesHilde D’haeyereFeminism, Laughter, and Photomontage: Comedic Effect and Grete Stern’s SueñosAnna Corrigan & Susana S. Martins
Part IIIPhotographic Wit in Conceptual Art
Keeping a Straight Face: Photography and the Performance of Conceptual ArtHeather Diack“No Photographs Allowed”: Conceptual Wit in Some Belgian Photo-based Artists’ BooksJohan PasLaughter Protocol: Elements of Humor in Proto- and Conceptual Photography in CroatiaSandra Križic Roban
About the AuthorsArtist’s pages by Lieven SegersArtist’s pages by David HelbichColophon

Über Autor(innen)

Decan, Liesbeth
Liesbeth Decan teaches theory and history of photography at LUCA School of Arts Brussels, where she is also the coordinator of the research group Photography Expanded.

Bleyen, Mieke
Mieke Bleyen is a postdoctoral researcher at the Lieven Gevaert Research Centre for Photography, Art and Visual Culture and the Institute for Cultural Studies at the KU Leuven.