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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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Uncanny sex: cloning, photographic vision, and the reproduction of nature
TL;DR: This paper argued that the idea of human cloning unsettles us in a way that may profitably be understood in terms of Sigmund Freud's account of the uncanny, drawing parallels between Barthes' ontology of photography, Judith Butler's theory of gender melancholia, and the fiction of Kazuo Ishiguro.
Adding the agentic capacities of visual materials to visual research ethics
Kim McLeod,Marilys Guillemin +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that visual research presents with particular ethical challenges because of the agentic capacities of the visual materials themselves, and they advocate for extending situated ethics and researcher reflexivity to include consideration of the act of visual materials.
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‘What a Picture Can Do’: Contests of colonial mastery in photographs of Asian ‘houseboys’ from Southeast Asia and Northern Australia, 1880s–1920s
TL;DR: The archives of colonial Southeast Asia and northern Australia contain hundreds of photographs of masterly white colonizers and their seemingly devoted Asian "houseboys" as discussed by the authors, which can be used to illuminate the working lives of these Chinese, Malay, Javanese, and Filipino men.
A Way of Seeing: The Transformation of American Soldiers' Snapshot Photography During the Vietnam War
TL;DR: In this article, an analysis of American soldiers' snapshots taken during the Vietnam War from the National Veterans Art Museum's archive in Chicago reveals a unique set of images due to their origins as snapshots and their stylistic references to other visual frameworks that are historically used to represent war.
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The hands of the projectionist.
TL;DR: This essay considers the work of projection and the hand of the projectionist as important components of the social space of the cinema as it comes into being in the nineteenth century and the early decades of the twentieth.