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12 septembre 2018
- handle: 10670/1.8zi0jb
- isbn: 9782878543360
- eisbn: 9782878548624
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Hélène Perrin, « Frederick Sommer et les conjugaisons photographiques du ramentevoir », Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, ID : 10670/1.8zi0jb
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When photography came into being in the nineteenth century, it was deemed a «mirror with a memory»: an apparently ideal combination of objectivity and permanence, it could be made to serve and illustrate a rhetorical view of memory, the age-old ars memoriae. American artist Frederick Sommer (1905-1999) plays around with these notions in a complex memory game which shows photographs to be «images about images» rather than objective mechanical recordings of a ready-made world. His images, in which recollection, recognition, representation, and the very representation of memory undergo constant redefinition, offer an insight into how «pictorial logic» can help «restructure our perception of this world».