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- Title
Henry James's Overexposures.
- Authors
Laura Saltz
- Abstract
This essay analyzes photographic portraits of Henry James and their significance to his autobiographies. James disliked photography as an aesthetic medium, but its complex referential status--a photograph testifies mostly to the passage of time (Barthes)--throws the autobiographer's task into relief. Seeing himself across the gulf of years, James must confront the image of his own body, and even his sexuality, subjects the autobiographies largely avoid.. Focusing on the Brady daguerreotype and a portrait from 1863, the essay shows how James uses the images to express feelings of exposure that connect his past and present.
- Subjects
JAMES, Henry, 1843-1916; AUTOBIOGRAPHY; AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL fiction; PHOTOGRAPHY
- Publication
Henry James Review, 2004, Vol 25, Issue 3, p254
- ISSN
0273-0340
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/hjr.2004.0030