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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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Family Archiving in the Digital Age

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Early Photography's Late Romanticism

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Young Nostalgics: Why, Where, and How to Analyze Postmodern Constructions of 'Pastness' in Contemporary Youth Blogs

TL;DR: In this paper, the epistemological and technical methodological challenges raised by a qualitative analysis of online photographic journals are discussed, focusing on the eclectic methodological framework that the author proposes to use, from discursive textual analysis and photographic semiology to interviews.