The Blind Man: A Phantasmography

by Robert Desjarlais

Book Overview

The Blind Man: A Phantasmography examines the complicated forces of perception, imagination, and phantasms of encounter in the contemporary world. In considering photographs he took while he was traveling in France, anthropologist and writer Robert Desjarlais reflects on a few pictures that show the features of a man, apparently blind, who begs for money at a religious site in Paris, frequented by tourists. In perceiving this stranger and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823281116
• ISBN13: 9780823281114
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"