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The Nude in the Album: Materiality and Erotic Narrative
Visual Resources ( IF 0.3 ) Pub Date : 2020-04-02 , DOI: 10.1080/01973762.2020.1746499
Heather Waldroup

This article considers two compilations containing photographs of undressed women. The first is an album in the standard definition, “compiled by a painter for figure studies” in the 1890s. The second is an extra-illustrated book published in 1896 with a number of images of nude and partially nude women glued in to the text. In both, the inclusion of nude photographs heightens their function as suggestions of sexual sequence, the unfolding of a series of events or encounters. By arranging their photographs within the pages of a bound object, the creators fashioned not only mnemonic aides, but active eroticized narratives, for their own use and perhaps for the use of a select audience of viewer-friends. The narrative experiences produced through the act of looking would have been heightened by the materiality of the photographs contained within them. The two examples considered here also offer the possibility of viewing the wide stylistic range of a certain genre that can otherwise be difficult to see: the nineteenth-century photographic nude. The album format and the narrative it enables, combined with the tactility and physicality of the photographs themselves, enhances the inherent eroticism of the images. These two albums operate as analogs for understanding the relationships between intimacy, memory, and desire, and the way these are activated through the performance of looking and touching. They exist at the rich intersection of visual and material studies, as both images and things, meant to be seen and touched.

中文翻译:

专辑中的裸体:物质性和情色叙事

本文考虑了两份包含裸女照片的汇编。第一个是标准定义的专辑,“由一位画家在 1890 年代为人物研究而编纂”。第二本是 1896 年出版的带插图的书,正文中粘有许多裸体和半裸女性的图像。在两者中,裸体照片都增强了它们作为性序列、一系列事件或遭遇的展开的暗示的功能。通过将他们的照片安排在一个装订对象的页面内,创作者不仅塑造了助记符,而且塑造了活跃的色情叙事,供他们自己使用,也许供特定的观众朋友使用。通过观看行为产生的叙事体验会被其中包含的照片的物质性增强。这里考虑的两个例子也提供了一种可能性,可以看到某种类型的广泛风格范围,否则很难看到:19 世纪的裸体摄影。相册格式和它所支持的叙事,结合照片本身的触感和物理性,增强了图像的内在色情。这两张专辑作为理解亲密、记忆和欲望之间关系的类比,以及通过观看和触摸的表现激活这些关系的方式。它们存在于视觉和材料研究的丰富交叉点,作为图像和事物,都应该被看到和触摸。这里考虑的两个例子还提供了查看某个类型的广泛风格范围的可能性,否则很难看到:19 世纪的裸体摄影。相册格式和它所支持的叙事,结合照片本身的触感和物理性,增强了图像的内在色情。这两张专辑作为理解亲密、记忆和欲望之间关系的类比,以及通过观看和触摸的表现激活这些关系的方式。它们存在于视觉和材料研究的丰富交叉点,作为图像和事物,都应该被看到和触摸。这里考虑的两个例子也提供了一种可能性,可以看到某种类型的广泛风格范围,否则很难看到:19 世纪的裸体摄影。相册格式和它所支持的叙事,结合照片本身的触感和物理性,增强了图像的内在色情。这两张专辑作为理解亲密、记忆和欲望之间关系的类比,以及通过观看和触摸的表现激活这些关系的方式。它们存在于视觉和材料研究的丰富交叉点,作为图像和事物,都应该被看到和触摸。相册格式和它所支持的叙事,结合照片本身的触感和物理性,增强了图像的内在色情。这两张专辑作为理解亲密、记忆和欲望之间关系的类比,以及通过观看和触摸的表现激活这些关系的方式。它们存在于视觉和材料研究的丰富交叉点,作为图像和事物,都应该被看到和触摸。相册格式和它所支持的叙事,结合照片本身的触感和物理性,增强了图像的内在色情。这两张专辑作为理解亲密、记忆和欲望之间关系的类比,以及通过观看和触摸的表现激活这些关系的方式。它们存在于视觉和材料研究的丰富交叉点,作为图像和事物,都应该被看到和触摸。
更新日期:2020-04-02
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