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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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Double Fictions and Double Visions of Japanese Modernity
TL;DR: The authors place emphasis on the doppelganger's enactment of repetition itself through an examination at the figure through the prism of the problem of genre, in terms of how it has come to be discursively constituted as a genre itself and its embodiment of the very logic of genre in its play on the positions of identity and difference.
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Narrative Identities: The Employment of the Mexican on the U.S.-Mexican Border
TL;DR: In this paper, border actors construct narratives about the U.S.-Mexican border and play with the multiple meanings of the word "mexpectation" to both nationality and ethnicity.
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Editorial: Special Issue on Photography, Archive and Memory
Karen Cross,Julia Peck +1 more
TL;DR: This article contextualised the various articles that analyse some of the ways that memory has become a tool for critically theorising photography and the archive, but recognise their partial and fragmented forms. But like any other concept used in the theory and practice of photography, memory here is subject to scrutiny and is not used in a simple or an unproblematised nostalgic form.
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Beyond the Public Eye On FOIA Documents and the Visual Politics of Redaction
TL;DR: The authors argued that the visual politics of redaction offer an aesthetic point of entry that brings into focus the limits of transparency for making visible necropolitical systems of violence, arguing that the released torture memos were heavily redacted and nearly unreadable.
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What is 'Islamic' Art?: Between Religion and Perception
TL;DR: Shaw as discussed by the authors explores the perception of arts, including painting, music, and geometry through the discursive sphere of historical Islam including the Qur'an, Hadith, Sufism, ancient philosophy, and poetry.