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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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Descendants of Black Hawk: Generations of Identity in Sauk Portraits
TL;DR: The authors examines the photographs of local historian John Henry Hauberg to track the uses of portraits of the Sauk leader Black Hawk and his descendants as they were interpreted by both white audiences and by members of Sauk nation in the early twentieth century.
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To resist or to embrace social death? Photographs of couples on Romanian gravestones
TL;DR: In this article, a small-scale Transylvanian community uses the traditional practice of family photographs on gravestones to deal with survivors' social degradation, which can both affirm social death and mitigate it, depending on the survivor's will and ability to make an extra effort to restore the tie with the deceased.
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Western representations of the African 'other' : investigations into the controversy around Geert Van Kesteren's photographs of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Zambia.
TL;DR: The controversy around the photographic representation of the RIV/AIDS pandemic in Zambia (1999) by the Dutch photojournalist Geert van Kesteren is investigated in this article.
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Is Seeing Believing? A Critical Analysis of Japanese Colonial Photographs of Korea
TL;DR: In this paper, a collection of photos from the Japanese Government-General of Chōsen (GGC), which controlled Korea 1910-1945, were examined to assess Barthes' argument that interpretation of photography depends on cultural codes embedded therein.