Author Description

While photography deals in still images, duplicated and circulated, we associate theatre with motion, events experienced in a specific place with specific participants. Privileging points at which theatre and photography intertwine, Joel Anderson examines these points as moments in which two conceptions of an image seem to assert themselves: one crafted, constructed and carrying meaning; the other reporting reality, capturing a likeness. Drawing on case studies from theatre photography, performance art documentation and stage and street performances that deal in photography, Joel Anderson explores photography and theatre's mutual preoccupation with posing, staging, framing and stillness, and shows how they can offer useful perspectives for understanding one another. Book jacket.