Les photographies d’auteur dans l’espace public : de la promotion dans la presse écrite à l’adoration en ligne, ou la réception professionnelle et amateure de l’image de Charles Bukowski

Abstract

Through an overview of the reception of Charles Bukowski’s image in the French press in the 1970s-1980s, and the use of his photographs online nowadays, this article aims at explaining how readers, whether professionals or amateurs, interpret the work of the American author Charles Bukowski through his image, and use his many photographs with a variety of texts, to promote either the work of the author, or his image.