Att skriva med ljus

Johan Gardfors, Mats Jansson, Nils Olsson

The birth of photography in the 19th century was a decisive event in the history of visual arts - a media-technological revolution that also changed the conditions for literary creation. The continued collaboration of literature and photography left deep traces in the field of artistic production during the 20th and 2000s. Some of its expressions and effects are discussed in 'Writing with light', where Swedish, Danish and Norwegian authors move from the photographer Nadar's memoirs to the filmmaker Wim Wender's photo texts with hits by, among others, Gertrude Stein, André Breton, Ivar Lo-Johansson, Asger Jorn and Elias Canetti Fotografins födelse på 1800-talet var en avgörande händelse i de visuella konsternas historia - en medieteknologisk omvälvning som förändrade förutsättningarna också för litterärt skapande. Litteraturens och fotografins fortsatta samverkan kom att sätta djupa...