Metamorphoses of Identity: The Photographic Portrait in Literature

Paul Edwards

23 May 2020

A talk with Paul Edwards

As a part of the exhibition Fils by Koos Breukel at the Centre Photographique Rouen Normandie, June–September 2020.

Paul Edwards is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Paris and an associate researcher at the Maison Française d’Oxford. His research focuses primarily on the photobook and photoliterature. He is the author of two monographs, Perle noire, Le photobook littéraire (PUR 2016) and Soleil noir. Photographie et littérature des origines au surréalisme (PUR 2008), as well as a critical anthology, Je hais les photographes ! Key Texts from a Controversy over the Image 1850–1916 (Anabet 2006), a collective work, Disorder. A Social History of the Punk and Post-Punk Movements (Seteun 2018), and translations of Alfred Jarry (Atlas Press) and Marcel Duchamp (Philadelphia Museum of Art). He is the curator of the exhibitions “From Studio to Selfie” (Bodleian Library, Oxford, February–March 2020) and “Early Literary Photobooks”

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