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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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The post-mortem star discourse, or, loving Adrienne Shelly
TL;DR: The post-mortem star discourse is a site for the perception of cinema's paradox of presence, or the romantic characterisation of a reality that is not ‘there’ as discussed by the authors.
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Roland Barthes and the Tricks of Experience
TL;DR: In the first person, experience is defined as the process in which a subject alienates himself (loses himself, dies to himself) in order to arrive at himself, to live as mentioned in this paper.
In Time But Not Of Time: Jessica Eaton and Erin Shirreff's Counterpoints of View
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a Table of Table of contents of the paper. But they do not discuss the authorship of the authors' authorship, but only their work.
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Proustian Developments: The World and Object of Photography
TL;DR: In this article, the authors outline the aesthetical and ontological conceptual problems that underlie the discussions on Proust and photography, which seem as productive for the theory of photography as they are for contemporary readings of proust.