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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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Sensationalizing death? Graphic disaster images in the tabloid and broadsheet press:
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report the results of a study of tabloid and broadsheet images of death from the 2010 Haiti earthquake in eight Western European and North American countries, and show that, far from omnipresent, graphic imagery of death are relatively rare.
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The Chernobyl Landscape and the Aesthetics of Invisibility
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reflect upon the dilemma of representing nuclear catastrophes in photography, as the vast number of photographs from the restricted zone around Chernobyl show, the intention to produce...
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A Historical Approach to Family Photography: Class and Individuality in Manchester and Lille, 1850–1914
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the stories behind family collections in two European industrial towns, in order to discover how ordinary men and women use photography to construct their own histories, not to imitate their bourgeois "superiors", but to show their pride in their own accomplishments and their children's.
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Literature, Ethics, and Decolonization in Postwar France: The Politics of Disengagement
TL;DR: The authors examines the background of intellectual and political debates in France during the 1950s and 1960s and argues that these texts are more politically engaged than they may initially appear, arguing that blankness, weakness, and withdrawal from action are not symptoms of impotence and political escapism in the face of historical events, but deliberate literary strategies aimed to neutralize the drive to dominate others that characterized the colonial project.
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Extracting spatial data from historic artwork of Hobart and its region
TL;DR: In this paper, the integration of spatial techniques with art can potentially provide information on past environments and culture, as well as the significance of the social background and profession of the artist in composition.