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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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Drawing time : trace, materiality and the body in drawing after 1940
TL;DR: Focusing on specific episodes from the rich history of drawing practice after 1940, the authors examines issues of time, materiality and the body in relation to drawing's production and reception.
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Corporate and Worker Photographs of the Offshore Oil Industry: The Case of the Ocean Ranger
TL;DR: The most extensively circulated images of hydrocarbon extraction at sea are either the work of professional industrial photographers employed by oil companies to extract hydrocarbons, or the images of professional photographers employed to photograph the extraction process as mentioned in this paper.
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Women Modernists and Fascism
TL;DR: Zox-Weaver as mentioned in this paper examines how four artists and writers represented fascist leaders, and examines how photographer Lee Miller, filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl, writer Gertrude Stein and journalist Janet Flanner interpret, dramatize and exploit Hitler, Goring and Petain within their own artistic medium.
Art documents : the politics of the visible in the work of Taryn Simon and Trevor Paglen
TL;DR: In this article, Simon and Paglen discuss the politics of the frame and the impossibility of representation in post-representationalist photography and visualizing networks of power and exchange in the context of images.
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The political aesthetics of vulnerability and the feminist revolt
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the social movement Ni Una Menos to examine the ways in which vulnerability has been mobilized by some contemporary feminist popular struggles, focusing on the current investment in cultural activism opposing the curtailment of bodily life along gendered, sexualized, and racialized lines.