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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.
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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.

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Storyboards of remembrance: Representations of the past in visitors’ photography at Auschwitz:

TL;DR: The role of visual perception and visual techniques of memory for visits to memorial sites and empirically discusses the significance of historical imagination in linking the past with the present is discussed in this article.
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Epiphany in the Wilderness: Hunting, Nature, and Performance in the Nineteenth-Century American West

TL;DR: In this paper, Jones explores the social, political, economic, and environmental dynamics of hunting on the frontier in three "acts," using performance as a trail guide and focusing on the production of a "cultural ecology of the chase" in literature, art, photography, and taxidermy.
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An event in sound : Considerations on the ethical-aesthetic traits of the hermeneutic-phenomenological text

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss some of the linguistic features of hermeneutic-phenomenological writing and point to the close connection between lived experience and the ethical-aesthetic traits of writing the experience.
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Visual Juxtaposition as Qualitative Inquiry in Educational Research.

TL;DR: Visual juxtaposition is inquiry through contrast, facilitated by side-by-side positioning of two images, or images and text as mentioned in this paper, which creates opportunities for qualitative analysis that are not as readily apparent when individual images are considered.

In the Funhouse Mirror: How News Subjects Respond to Their Media Reflections

TL;DR: Palmer et al. as mentioned in this paper found that news subjects perceive the phenomenon of making the news as a broader saga that begins with their involvement in an event or issue, often only later deemed newsworthy by journalists, and extends to the repercussions of the coverage in their lives, including feedback they receive from others and effects on their digital reputations.