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Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
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Barthes shares his passionate, in-depth knowledge and understanding of photography in Reflections on Photography as mentioned in this paper, examining the themes of presence and absence, the relationship between photography and theatre, history and death.Abstract:
Barthes shares his passionate, in-depth knowledge and understanding of photography. Examining the themes of presence and absence, the relationship between photography and theatre, history and death, these 'reflections on photography' begin as an investigation into the nature of photographs. Then, as Barthes contemplates a photograph of his mother as a child, the book becomes an exposition of his own mind.read more
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“More rapid than the lightning's flash”: Photography, Suddenness, and the Afterlife of Romantic Illumination
TL;DR: The actual and metaphorical power of the lightning's flash was examined in this article, where it was shown that visibility produced light that dazzled and lit up surfaces, rather than providing illumination in any deeper sense.
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A Theoretical Construct for Interpreting Photographs.
TL;DR: In this article, a theoretical construct of a category system for interpreting photographs is presented as a means to add specific considerations about the unique medium of photography to existing instructional art criticism formats, and to current research in art criticism questioning strategies.
Articulating stone. The material practice of petroglyphing
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the relations between materiality and the chaine operatoire rather than in terms of representation, symbolisation or style, and emphasize the changing importance of space, depth and size in the process of making and arranging the motifs.