Notes from Source: This essay examines the idea of the verbal photograph, particularly those in Anne Carson’s novel Autobiography of Red and Barthes’s winter garden photograph in Camera Lucida. The essay argues for a reconsideration of classic photography theory in light of the tensions around these seemingly absent photographs, suggesting that a counterpoint to the dominant equation of photography and death in photography theory is the alliance, abetted through narrative, of photography and love.

Further Notes: Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press