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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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Container Aesthetics: The Infrastructural Politics of Shunt's The Boy Who Climbed Out of His Face
TL;DR: The Boy Who Climbed out of his face (2014) as mentioned in this paper has been used as a starting point for examining the infrastructural politics of container aesthetics today, one that attends to both the politics of representing containers in performance and the stakes of transforming containers into aesthetic material.
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Subjectless images: visualization of migrants in Croatian and Slovenian public broadcasters’ online news
Andreja Vezovnik,Ljiljana Šarić +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore how migrants were visually presented during the so-called migration crisis in southeast Europe in the fall of 2015, and consider photographs from two public broadcasters' news channels.
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Skin, Flesh, and the Affective Wrinkles of Civil Rights Photography
TL;DR: For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights as discussed by the authors, a summer 2010 exhibit at the International Center for Photography, provides a vivid example of the role of the visual media in bringing racial violence into public view.
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"Not Knowing What I Should Think:" The Landscape of Postmemory in W. G. Sebald's The Emigrants
TL;DR: In W.G. Sebald's The Emigrants as discussed by the authors, pictures of a German Jewish family that has emigrated to England and whose experience of the holocaust the narrator seeks to reconstruct are juxtaposed to the landscape which represses that history, generating a reiteration of that repression.
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I Killed My Grandmother: Mary Antin, Amos Oz, and the Autobiography of a Name
TL;DR: This paper explored the extent to which my identity as a third-generation American has been entangled with a collective history shaped by the trauma of departure, and reimagine the documents of my personal archive within the grand immigration sagas of the twentieth century.