In Looking Back One Learns to See: Marcel Proust and Photography: Marcel Proust and Photography

Marcel Proust Offered The Twentieth Century A New Psychology Of Memory And Seeing. His Novel In Search Of Lost Time Was Written In The Modern Age Of Photography And Art History. In Looking Back One Learns To See: Marcel Proust And Photography Is An Intellectual Adventure That Brings To Light Proust’s Visual Imagination, His Visual Metaphors, And His Photographic Resources And Imaginings. The Book Features Over 90 Illustrations. Mary Bergstein Highlights Various Kinds Of Photography: Daguerreotypes, Stereoscopic Cards, Cartes-de-visite, Postcards, Book Illustrations, And Other Photographic Mediums. Portraiture, Medical Photography, Spirit Photography, Architectural Photography, Orientalism, Ethnographic Photography, And Fin-de-siècle Studies Of Botticelli, Leonardo, And Vermeer, Are Considered In Terms Of Proust’s Life And Work. The Net Is Cast Wide, And Each Image Under Discussion Has Been Researched With Subtle Attention To Art, Literature, And Cultural History. This Scholarly Study In Literature And Visual Culture Will Be A Delight, Too, For General Readers Who Love Photography Or Proust. Mary Bergstein Is Professor Of History Of Art And Visual Culture At The Rhode Island School Of Design. She Won The 2012 “courage To Dream” Book Prize From The American Psychoanalytic Association For, Mirrors Of Memory: Freud, Photography, And The History Of Art (cornell 2010). She Has Published Numerous Books And Articles On Art And Visual Culture From Italian Renaissance Sculpture To Contemporary Photography. Marcel Proust offered the twentieth century a new psychology of memory and seeing. His novel In Search of Lost Time was written in the modern age of photography and art history. In Looking Back One Learns to See: Marcel Proust and Photography brings to light Proust's photographic resources and his visual imagination. This scrupulously researched book features over 100 illustrations.Distinguished cultural historian Mary Bergstein presents various kinds of photography and photographic systems with regard to the literature of Marcel Proust, including daguerreotypes, stereoscopic cards, cartes-de-visite, postcards, book illustrations, portraiture, medical photography, spirit photography, architectural photography, and Orientalism. Photographs associated with fin-de-siècle studies of Botticelli, Leonardo, and Vermeer, are considered in terms of Proust's tastes and the historiography of art. Cover 1 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Table of Contents 7 Preface, Acknowledgements, and Notes on the Text 8 Introduction: "Pleasure... is like photography" 11 1 Photography and Memory 24 2 Photography and the Cultural Archive 43 3 The Enigma of Character 84 Illustrations chapters 1-3 105 4 Long Ago and Far Away: Jews, Orientals, and Ghosts 143 5 Odette "En Abyme" 167 6 Botticelli/Vermeer/Leonardo 176 Coda: "In Looking Back One Learns to See" 212 Illustrations chapters 4-6 215 Bibliography 266 Index 285