Abstract
This entry follows conflicts over privacy and evidence among photography, law, and literature’s historical interrelations. It offers how various literary authors found in photography’s legal conundrums a way to grapple with modernity’s vocabularies for its own contradictions; these challenges for law were intertwined with the aesthetic questions photography prompted of art more generally. This entry also points to important theorists whose writings help illuminate literary engagements with the ‘laws of image’, as Samantha Barbas has phrased it.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Law and Literature |
| Publisher | Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. |
| Pages | 352-355 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781803925912 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781803925905 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jan 1 2025 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- General Social Sciences
- General Arts and Humanities
Keywords
- Defamation
- Domesticity
- Empire
- Evidence
- Libel
- Ownership
- Privacy
- Publicity
- Surveillance