Entries (RSS) Searching for Sebald: Photography After W.G. Sebald
Searching for Sebald: Photography After W.G. Sebald, is a collection of original essays and visual projects inspired by the work of W.G. Sebald. The interest in Sebald has crossed disciplines, igniting passionate dialogues among and between scholars and practitioners. This unique project, with its intricate weave of image and text, captures this spirited conversation in both theory and praxis. Searching for Sebald is edited by Lise Patt, founder and director of the Institute of Cultural Inquiry. Although many recent scholarly texts address Sebald’s complex prose, Searching for Sebald is the first to explore Sebald’s fictive world through the idiosyncratic and anti-heroic photographs that propel and interrupt his labyrinthine narratives. The book also features an English translation of an interview Sebald gave in 1997 in which he talks exclusively about his use of photographs. It contains some of Sebald’s most illuminating and poetic remarks about the topic yet. He discusses Barthes, the photograph’s “appeal,” the childhood image of Kafka, family photographs, and even images he never used in his writings. Searching for Sebald is the 7th in a series of publications by ICI Press that explores the methodologies of culture. |
