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The Intertwining—The Chiasm: Embodiment, Affect, and Autobiographical Photography
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Author(s): Natalie Payne (London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London, UK)
Copyright: 2023
Pages: 24
Source title:
Handbook of Research on the Relationship Between Autobiographical Memory and Photography
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Mark Bruce Nigel Ingham (London College of Communication, University of the Arts London, UK), Nela Milic (London College of Communication, University of the Arts London, UK), Vasileios Kantas (University of West Attica, Greece), Sara Andersdotter (University for the Creative Arts, Sweden)and Paul Lowe (London College of Communication, University of the Arts London, UK)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-5337-7.ch009
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Abstract
The author deploys the notion of embodiment to provide a theoretical framework for a series of autobiographical photographs, Encountering Windrift (2012-2018). Applied to certain modes of autobiographical photography, the theory of embodiment proposed is based upon the notion of the photograph as the embodiment of an encounter between the photographer, the photographed subject, and the viewer. In autobiographical photography the embodied encounter may be heightened by the apparent intimacy between photographer and subject. Maurice Merleau-Ponty's notion of the chiasm and Jill Bennett's notion of an affective transaction serve to support this conception of the photograph as an embodied encounter in that both imply an intertwining of self and other. While the viewer may never be able to access another person's subjective experience directly, certain formal and conceptual approaches to autobiographical photography may enable the viewer's understanding of the photographer's personal experience of space and time, whilst simultaneously triggering their own autobiographical memory.
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