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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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Interrupting time : a photographic examination of the perception of urban temporality
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine how time is perceived in the urban realm and what role the visual field plays in this perception, and how a unified sense of time is reconciled with the fractured nature of urban temporality.
Performing the Self: autobiography, narrative, image and text in self-representations /
TL;DR: The notion of performativity can be applied to the visual construction of identity within art-making discourse in order to explore the contingent and mutable nature of identity in representation as mentioned in this paper.
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Homesick for Aged Home Movies: Why Do We Shoot Contemporary Family Videos in Old-Fashioned Ways?
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reject the position that the symbolic effects of family images are connected consequentially to the technologies employed to realize them, and they propose that the material dimension of home movies cannot be neglected, because it is this that ultimately provides so much satisfaction to people wishing to pass on their memories.
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Visions of Canada: Photographs and History in a Museum, 1921-1967
TL;DR: McNabb et al. as discussed by the authors explored the changing role of photographs used in the dissemination of history by a twentieth-century Canadian history museum, focusing on some of the changes that occurred in museum practice over four and a half decades at Montreal's McCord Museum.