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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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Storied Lives on Instagram: Factors Associated With the Need for Personal-Visual Identity
TL;DR: In this article, a mixed-methods survey was conducted with Instagram users to understand how sharing photos on social networking sites contributes to an individual's identity expression, and the results showed that the sharing of photos on Instagram contributes to identity expression.
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QUEER KINSHIP AND AMBIVALENCE Video Autoethnographies by Jean Carlomusto and Richard Fung
TL;DR: The authors explored the relationship between queer thought and kinship through a study of video auto-ethnographies by Jean Carlomusto and Richard Fung and proposed the concept of ambivalence as a useful point of departure for grappling with the conflicted political, affective, and conceptual terrain of LGBT kinship.
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See my virtual self: dissemination as a characteristic of digital photography – the example of Flickr.com
Rudolf Richter,Cornelia Schadler +1 more
TL;DR: The Kodak Eastman camera was the starting point of widespread amateur photography as discussed by the authors and it was the entrance of photography to the industrial age, and from that point onwards, amateur photography spread all over the world.