PUBLICATION 2007

This 400-page book is the first major study of contemporary image-based explorations of narrative. In this publication scholars, curators and historians and theoreticians of photography, video and the new media turn their attention to narrative procedures that have become ever more prevalent since the early 1990s. Such themes as photographic staging, digital technologies, appropriations from film and the mass media are approached from the perspective of an unprecedented broadening of the narrative and temporal possibilities of the image. This study also documents and examines the work of more than 30 artists, several of whom initiated this reassessment of narrative forms. With essays by Olivier Asselin, Söke Dinkla, Marie Fraser, Nicole Gingras, Lori Pauli, and Jean-Christophe Royoux.