"Exploring the Border Between Form and Chaos:" Photojournalism's Intersection with Latin American Magic Realist Literature in Alex Webb's Vision of the Tropics
Harvard University, 2007. Hardcover. Thesis. Red library buckram, gilt letters on spine, 252 leaves, 60 illus. VG+ (Includes handwritten letter from author.). Item #154921
Thesis. Provides an analysis of photographs rendered by American photographer Alex Webb (b. 1952). "Investigates Webb's work as a mythopoetic vision of life in the tropics that relates to four main themes found within Magic Realist literature: (1) The juxtaposition of disparate elements found in everyday life in order to transform ordinary conceptions of emotion, temperature, scale, perspective, volume and locality. (2) A visual transformation of conventional perceptions of time and place in order to embody a mythopoetic vision of the tropics as a place of heightened creativity and primordial spirituality. (3) The exploration of socio-political clashes within cultures and the tendency within the civilizations toward self-destruction. (4) The unsentimental treatment of death as a transformative event, represented visually in a way that relates to the emergence of a butterfly from a cocoon." (abstract) The illustrations are quite clear in this well-printed and library-bound copy. Author Snibbe is also a photographer, and he studied with Alex Webb at Northeastern University.
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