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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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Islands of Detroit: Affect, Nostalgia and Whiteness
TL;DR: Islands of Detroit as discussed by the authors examines visual images of the city through the discursive lenses of nostalgia, modernity and affect, while positing that the histories and identities of Detroit remain irreducible to the images which attempt to capture them.
One and Three Bhairavas: The Hypocrisy of Iconographic Mediation
TL;DR: The artist-as-anthropologist, as a student of culture, has as his job to articulate a model of art, the purpose of which is to understand culture by making its implicit nature explicit.
Re imagining the family
TL;DR: In this paper, the disruptions caused specifically by one family's experience of migration and death are represented in art and how might these art works allow these disruptions to be expressed in art.
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‘Ghosts of Another Era’: Gender and Haunting in Visual Cultural Narratives of Mexico’s Dirty War
TL;DR: The authors examines the politics of gender in armed guerrilla organizations during Mexico's Dirty War (1960-1980s) and the role of visual culture in documenting histories of state violence and revolutionary struggle, arguing that the eradication of thousands of (gendered) subjectivities from Mexico's national consciousness has created a gendered haunting that holds contemporary neoliberal Mexico accountable to its recent violent past.
Confessions in Social Media - Performative, Constrained, Authentic and Participatory Self- Representations in Vlogs
TL;DR: The Panopticon and Webcam have been used to control the body in a space as discussed by the authors, and the use of visibility as part of the self-disciplining power has been shown to increase self-awareness.