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Living With His Camera (Hardcover)
by Jane Gallop, Dick Blau

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A few years ago, literary theorist Jane Gallop fended off charges of sexual harassment and then wrote a book about it, Feminist Accused of Sexual Harassment, which was a combination of memoiristic self-disclosure bordering on exhibitionism and cerebral forays into the upper reaches of poststructuralist literary theory. This book follows the same model, offering a Lacanian interpretation of the author's own family photo album. The trick is, Gallop's live-in boyfriend of many years, and the father of her children, is photographer Blau, who specializes in the field of domestic art photography a la Sally Mann and Nicholas Nixon. Thus, their family album becomes a charged, psychoanalytic document-a referendum, in fact, on their whole personal/professional partnership. Written in four chapters, each with a different photo-related text as its guide, the book offers loose ruminations on Roland Barthes' Camera Lucida, Susan Sontag's On Photography, Kathryn Harrison's novel Exposure, and Pierre Bourdieu's early work on the sociology of home photography, bent to the images of the author's own family life. The results are mixed, with Barthes and Sontag generating richer material than Harrison and Bourdieu, and the best moments coming when Gallop allows herself to enter the grain of her domestic world without too much theoretical interference. Her ruminations on the emotional and intellectual contradictions of being mother, partner and public intellectual are consistently probing, self-aware and generous-even gushing when her children are involved-and always intrepid about issues of anger and doubt. 27 b&w photographs.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Mary Louise Schumacher, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
"[M]ore than a presentation of a unique domestic life. [A]n intersection of her ideas and scholarship . . . and her private life.

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please add this review to real review section. thanks, dick -- The rating is not Olin's. Have to rate to send..., January 12, 2006
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Among photographic books, I recommend the following newcomer: Jane Gallop, Living With His Camera. This book is a book of almost filial devotion -- a sympathetic reading of classic books in the field of photographic theory. It is especially interesting on two of my favorites in the field, Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida, and Pierre Bourdieu, Photography: A Middlebrow Art. Gallop critiques these and others from the point of view of the day to day experience of being the photographic subject of her photographer companion, Dick Blau, whose excellent family photographs illustrate the text. The photographed subject does not often have a voice in theory. Gallop's contribution helps fill that gap.
Margaret Olin, Frontlist

Margaret Olin is Professor in the Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is most recently the author of The Nation Without Art: Examining Modern Discourses on Jewish Art and co-editor of Monuments and Memory, Made and Unmade.

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superb, August 16, 2003
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This book will surprise anyone who has followed the various intellectual threads in photography starting with Susan Sontag to the present. Not only does Gallop put Susan Sontag's work in it's place, she liberates the idea and practice of photography from many of the simple formulations and replaced it with a deep and resonate literary analysis that will make free thinkers and artists very happy.

Dick Blau's photographs are perfectly sited in this work. I can't think of another picture-text book that so perspiciously intergrates the two languages into a such a confounding whole. But that's life, at least the way we are forced to live it.

The combination of Gallop and Blau's life and work sets a new standard for understanding the grammar of each of their mediums. They suggest how language and images, taken together, can enrich an intelligent and courageous family. Their willingness to believe that their minds, hearts, and art matter, should be an inspiration to any one who might believe that an unexamined family life is not worth living.

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