Borges and Photography

Authors

  • David WILLIAM FOSTER Arizona State University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21142/DES-101-2009-97-108

Keywords:

Camera, Literature, Image, Photography.

Abstract

Borges is unquestionably the most photographed Argentine author. As someone who assumed something of an international celebrity status before he was widely accepted in his native country, the photographic images of Borges, which outside Argentina quickly went from newsprint to book jackets to gallery walls, were less the consequence in Argentina of any canonical role in national letters than they were the attention of local artists to their acquaintances and associates in rather closed circles.

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Author Biography

  • David WILLIAM FOSTER, Arizona State University
    David William Foster Ph. D. (University of Washington) es Regents Professor del Department of Languages and Literatures y Women’s Studies en Arizona State University. También es director de Graduate Studies e Interdisciplinary Humanities. Ha publicado textos enfocados principalmente en la narrativa y el teatro de la cultura latinoamericana en general. En estos últimos años su enfoque investigativo se ha diversificado todavía más y ha publicado estudios críticos sobre el cine mexicano, argentino y brasileño. También ha investigado la cultura judía y la teoría queer en América Latina. En relación a estos temas ha publicado Gay and Lesbian Themes in Latin American Writing (1991) en la University of Texas Press, y Bodies and Biases: Sexualities in Hispanic Cultures and Literature, con Robert Reiss, en la University of Minnesota Press (1996). Más recientemente ha publicado las siguientes compilaciones: Sexual Textualities: Essays on Queer/ing Latin American Writing (1997), Chicano/Latino homoerotic identities (1999) Mexico City in Contemporary Mexican Cinema (2002) y Queer Issues in Contemporary Latin American Cinema (2003).

References

FOSTER, David William. “Annemarie Henrich: Photography, Women’s Bodies, and Semiotic Excess.” Journal of Latin American Popular Culture 25 (2006): 253-70.

FOSTER, David William. Argentine Urban Photography. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland Publishing, 2007 (forthcoming).

FOSTER, David William. “Dreaming in Feminine: Grete Stern’s Photomontages and the Parody of Psychoanalysis.” Ciberletras 10 (2003): 10 pages. http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/ ciberletras/v.10/foster.htm

FOSTER, David William. “Sara Facio as Urban Photographer.” Foster, Buenos Aires: Perspectives on the City and Cultural Production. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 1998. 170-94.

FOSTER, David William. “Saudades do Brasil: Claude Lévi-Strauss’s Photographic Gaze of the City of São Paulo.” Chasqui, special issue no. 3 (2006): 98-125.

HEINRICH, Annemarie. Un cuerpo, una luz, un reflejo. Textos y se lección de imágenes, Juan Travnik. Buenos Aires: Edi ciones Larivière, 2004.

Image and Memory; Photography from Latin America, 1866-1994: FotoFest. Ed. Wendy Watriss and Lois Parkinson Zamora. Austin: U of Texas P, 1998.

STERNE, Grete. Fotografía en la Argentina, 1937-1981. Buenos Aires: La azotea, Editorial Fotográfica de la Argentina, 1988.

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Published

2016-01-19

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 1 (2009)

Section

Articles

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How to Cite

Borges and Photography. (2016). Desde El Sur, 1(1), 97-108. https://doi.org/10.21142/DES-101-2009-97-108

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