Résumés
Abstract
This article proposes to theorize the study of pseudophotographs as a subtype of photoliterature studies. Pseudophotographs are any illustrations understood within the context of a picturebook or graphic novel to be representations of photographs. This article attempts to define this undertheorized graphic object, to discuss its various functions, and to analyse what pseudophotographs can tell us about how real photographs and photography are considered in children’s literature. Because pseudophotographs appropriate some of the conventions of photography and yet are unlike real photographs in many ways, they are, we argue, a significant place for implicit discourse about the art and practice of photography and about affective encounters with photographs.
Keywords:
- Pseudophotographs,
- photography,
- nostalgia,
- belonging,
- children’s literature,
- picturebooks
Résumé
Cet article propose de théoriser l’étude des pseudophotographies en tant que sous‑genre des études photo-littéraires. Une pseudophotographie est une illustration qui, dans le contexte d’un album ou d’une bande dessinée romanesque, se veut la représentation d’une photographie. Nous cherchons ici à définir cet objet graphique sous-théorisé et à en exposer les diverses fonctions. Notre analyse porte également sur ce que les pseudophotographies révèlent quant à la représentation de la photographie en littérature jeunesse. En effet, parce que les pseudophotographies imitent certaines conventions de la photographie tout en en transgressant d’autres de multiples manières, elles portent un discours implicite sur l’art et la pratique photographiques, ainsi que sur les affects liés aux photographies.
Mots-clés :
- Pseudophotographies,
- photographie,
- nostalgie,
- appartenance,
- littérature jeunesse,
- albums
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