David Bate

TL;DR: In this article, the authors address the specific contribution that the invention of photography has made to the relation of memory and history and the consequences of photography on these domains are as important for photographers as they are for historians and critics.

TL;DR: What is a Surrealist photograph? the automatic image sadness and sanity the oriental signifier the Sadean eye black object, white subject the truth of the colonies fascism and exile as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: Foucault as mentioned in this paper made a clear distinction between the "archive" and the method that he describes as archaeological, and the metaphor of digging provides a valuable image of what the historical researcher needs to do.

TL;DR: In a stream of old fast one-line jokes from the 1970s, a comedian announces that he has just purchased a new "digital" watch and the punch line is that it has to be wound up with "digits" (his worms) as mentioned in this paper.