Finding Purpose in the Photographs of Others: Ransom Riggs and Isabelle Monnin
In Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (2011) and Les Gens dans l’enveloppe (2015) respectively, American writer Ransom Riggs and French journalist and writer Isabelle Monnin illustrate Barthes’s statement that photographs only attest to what has been. Both became “haunted” enough by picture...
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openedition-oai:revues.org:interfaces_648 https://doi.org/10.4000/interfaces.648 urn:doi:10.4000/interfaces.648 en https://journals.openedition.org/interfaces/648 2020-12-15T01:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/h4h4 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Finding Purpose in the Photographs of Others: Ransom Riggs and Isabelle Monnin Interfaces Université Bourgogne Europe info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2647-6754 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/1164-6225 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/interfaces Bacholle, Michèle photo-textualité protophotographie allo-portrait psychogénéalogie Monnin (Isabelle) Riggs (Ransom) photo-textuality protophotograph allo-portrait psychogenealogy Monnin (Isabelle) Riggs (Ransom) In Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (2011) and Les Gens dans l’enveloppe (2015) respectively, American writer Ransom Riggs and French journalist and writer Isabelle Monnin illustrate Barthes’s statement that photographs only attest to what has been. Both became “haunted” enough by pictures of others that they felt the need to give them a context. This article examines how both writers – albeit differently – integrated photographs in a dynamic photo-textual project that requires the reader-spectator’s active participation in the creation of meaning. In addition to being more complex, we will see how Monnin’s project’s transpersonal nature calls for a psychogenealogical reading. Dans Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (2011) et Les Gens dans l’enveloppe (2015), l’écrivain américain Ransom Riggs et la journaliste et écrivaine française Isabelle Monnin illustrent la déclaration de Barthes selon laquelle les photographies ne font qu’attester de ce qui a été. Tous deux furent tellement habités par des photos d’autrui qu’ils ressentirent le besoin de leur donner un contexte. Cet article examine comment les deux écrivains – quoique différemment – ont intégré des photos dans un projet photo-textuel dynamique qui requiert la participation active du lecteur dans la création du sens. En sus d’être plus complexe, nous verrons que la nature transpersonnelle du projet de Monnin invite à une lecture psychogénéalogique. |
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In Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (2011) and Les Gens dans l’enveloppe (2015) respectively, American writer Ransom Riggs and French journalist and writer Isabelle Monnin illustrate Barthes’s statement that photographs only attest to what has been. Both became “haunted” enough by pictures of others that they felt the need to give them a context. This article examines how both writers – albeit differently – integrated photographs in a dynamic photo-textual project that requires the reader-spectator’s active participation in the creation of meaning. In addition to being more complex, we will see how Monnin’s project’s transpersonal nature calls for a psychogenealogical reading. |
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Finding Purpose in the Photographs of Others: Ransom Riggs and Isabelle Monnin |
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