POSTURES PHOTO(BIO)GRAPHIQUES DANS LE LABYRINTHE DU MONDE
PHOTO(BIO)GRAPHICAL DEVELOPMENTS IN "LE LABYRINTHE DU MONDE"

Summary/Abstract: Within the collection of documents gathered by Marguerite Yourcenar, photography holds a unique place : not only does it enable the author to gain possession of images of the past, but also to develop into a form of art capable of reviving a whole era of history, with its ghosts, characters and meanings. By lending itself to verbalisation, photography becomes a point of departure for autobiography. In Archives du Nord, Souvenirs pieux and Quoi ? L’éternité the descriptions of silver halide photographs paradoxically lead to a defiguration of the “self “, to a loss of its own image in such a way that – in a manner very close to Barthes – the “ I “ becomes “you” and the selfportrait is remodelled into a portrait.

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