Mary Bergstein, In Looking Back One Learns to See: Marcel Proust and Photog

In Looking Back One Learns to See: Marcel Proust and Photography is an intellectual adventure that brings to light Proust's visual imagination, his visual metaphors, and his photographic resources and imaginings. The book features over 90 illustrations which highlight various kinds of photography: daguerreotypes, stereoscopic cards, cartes-de-visite, postcards, book illustrations, and other photographic media. Portraiture, medical photography, spirit photography, architectural photography, Orientalism, ethnographic photography, and fin-de-siècle studies of Botticelli, Leonardo, and Vermeer, are considered in terms of Proust's life and work. Mary Bergstein received her BFA. at Alfred University, her M.A. at Hunter College, and her Ph.D. at Columbia. Although trained as a historian of Italian Renaissance art and architecture, she has written widely on the cultural history of photography. She teaches at RISD in the History of Art + Visual Culture Department.

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