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Cookie akzeptierenPenny Cousineau-Levine
Faking Death
- Oxford University Press, USA
- 2003
- Gebunden
- 324 Seiten
- ISBN 9780773525269
The first book-length, in-depth study of contemporary Canadian art photography. In Faking Death Penny Cousineau-Levine examines the work of over 120 Canadian photographers, revealing important aspects of Canadian identity and imagination. Contrasting Canadian photography with American and European traditions, she shows that Canadian photographers are often preoccupied with a place that is "elsewhere, " a doubling and duality that also occurs in Canadian literature, film, and political life. Subverting the documentary tradition and other stylistic idioms for their own distinctive ends, Canadian photographers exhibit an ambivalent preoccupation with death and dying, bondage, and entrapment. Cousineau-Levine argues that this is characteristically a 'faked' death that expresses a collective
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