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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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Seeing the city: photography as a place of work
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The social significance of artistic representations of former coal and steel communities
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The reliability of CCTV images as forensic evidence
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Private and public images: A study of photographic contrasts in postcard pictures of great basin Indians, 1898–1919
TL;DR: The authors show how the differing uses to which postcard pictures were put, and how the different audiences which viewed them influenced the stereotypic as well as authentic ways in which Great Basin Indians were represented on the postcard from 1900 to 1920.