Photographic literacy: cameras in the hands of Russian authors

Abstract

"A primer in photographic literacy, focused on the sites of contact between photography and literary writing over roughly seventy years, this book traces the visual consciousness of modern Russian literature in the twentieth century as captured through the lens of the Russian author-photographer"--

Contents

Introduction : chasing Pushkin's photograph -- Tolstoy in the age of his technological reproducibility -- The diffusion of domesticated photography : Leonid Andreev, Vasily Rozanov, and Maximillian Voloshin -- Microgeography, macroworld : Mikhail Prishvin -- Look left, young man! The international exchange of photo-narratives -- Conclusion : Nabokov, Solzhenitsyn, and the anxiety of photographic authorship.