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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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Making art from evidence: Secret sex and police surveillance in the Tearoom
Katherine Biber,Derek Dalton +1 more
TL;DR: In the case of Mansfield, Ohio, police officers concealed themselves for two weeks in a men's public toilet in Mansfield and filmed men performing illicit homosexual sex acts as mentioned in this paper, which was used to secure convictions for sodomy and inaugurated a new form of police surveillance of homosexual public sex.
In loving memory. Inscriptions, images and imagination at the north Head Quarantine Station, Sydney, Australia
Ursula Frederick,Anne Clarke +1 more
Abstract: One hundred and fifty years ago, on a sandstone cliff high above Sydney Harbour, Australia, a number of individuals began carving the rocks and making their mark upon the land. The people who made these inscriptions were amongst Australia’s first migrants and free settlers who were put in quarantine. The Quarantine Station was established in 1828 to manage and control the spread of infectious diseases in the nascent colony of New South Wales. Who were these people and why were they compelled to mark their presence in stone here? In this paper we explore the words and images inscribed at the North Head Quarantine Station. They are, we suggest, an historical archive of passengers, ship’s names, and ports of origin as well as markers of passage and acts of memorialisation. An evocative testimony to lives held in suspension, we discuss also the profound effect of seeing these inscriptions and realising that for some of their makers the journey remained unfulfilled.
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Leaving lagos: Intertextuality and images in Chris Abani’s GraceLand
TL;DR: The authors examines the deployment of written and visual narratives in Chris Abani's novel GraceLand (2004), which treats photographs, films, and other visual representations of cities as emerging cultural narratives in Nigeria.