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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.
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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.

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Bringing home the dead: photographs, family imaginaries and moral remains

TL;DR: This article found that almost half of those people had experienced a bereavement of a close relative, partner or friend in the last ten years, while parent-child relationships were privileged, those more frequently pictured also included grandparents, siblings and to a lesser extent partners.
Dissertation

Everything speaks: the Jewish Lithuanian experience through people, places and objects

TL;DR: This article presented the history and experiences of a group of elderly survivors in modern-day Vilnius through the lens of their stories and memories, their special places and their biographical objects.
Journal Article

Thinking about Photography in Comics

TL;DR: A short history of photography and cartooning can be found in this paper with an eye toward elucidating their comingling in comics Drawing from the work of several theorists and practitioners, it traces a variety of methods in which photography has been used in comics.
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"One More Picture": Robert Browning's Optical Unconscious

Ivan Kreilkamp
- 07 Jun 2006 - 
TL;DR: One day, quite some time ago, I happened on a photograph of Napoleon's youngest brother, Jerome, taken in 1852 and I realized then, with an amazement I have not been able to lessen since: "I am looking at eyes that looked at the Emperor." Sometimes I would mention this amazement, but since no one seemed to share it nor even to understand it (life consists of these little touches of solitude), I forgot about it.