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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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Cecil Beaton’s Romantic Toryism and the Symbolic Economy of Wartime Britain
TL;DR: Cecil Beaton as mentioned in this paper was one of the first photographers to photograph the Second World War in North Africa, Burma, India, and China, and his work appeared to represent a shift from playful frivolity to the seriousness of literally life-and-death situations, from artificial glamour to reality.
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Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) as mirror and portrait: MRI configurations between science and the arts.
TL;DR: It is argued that MRI has a "look" in the same way that the portrait has—that is, it has the capacity of being performative, thus resisting its being regarded as a transparent window onto the self.
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Improbable visions: Filipino bodies, U.S. empire, and the visual archives
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Ghost images: representations of second-generation memory in contemporary children's literature
TL;DR: Ghost Images as discussed by the authors studies how texts produced for and about children represent the child's unique capacity to remember events that preceded her/his birth in order to address questions of how traumatic historical events should be remembered and mourned.