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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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Woman's Reappearance: Rethinking the Archive in Contemporary Art—feminist Perspectives:
TL;DR: In this article, the authors address feminist uses of archival documents in the visual arts through the analysis of three works produced in the past two decades: The Fae Richard's Photo Archive (1997) by Zoe Leonard and Cheryl Dunye, Some Chance Operations (1998) by Renee Green and Queen of the Artists’ Studios (2004-2007) by Andrea Geyer.
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Beyond promotion and protection: creators, audiences and common ground in user-generated media
Eric Cook,Stephanie D. Teasley +1 more
TL;DR: Findings from a qualitative study of producers in a specific creative domain---online digital photography recast privacy controls and promotion support as subtypes of a broader set of audience management practices, providing new considerations for design of creativity support tools and user-generated media systems.
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Mediated memory making: The virtual family photograph album
Donell Holloway,Lelia Green +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore how families adopt Facebook as the family photograph album and explore how virtual family photograph albums can result in parental tension around domestic tasks of sharing and archiving family memories online, along with the possible implications of creating a potentially embarrassing, unauthorized digital footprint for their children.
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Framing photographs, denying archives: the difficulty of focusing on archival photographs
TL;DR: In this article, an in-depth review of the scholarship on the photograph in archival literature is presented, and several possible reasons why archivists and those writing about photographic archives apparently continue to struggle with the photograph, including: the sheer difficulty that photographs as an elusive medium present; past debates about photography in art history, history, and archival discourse; and the challenges that the photograph as an evasive document presents to the contradictory nature of archives themselves and to conceptions of archival science.
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Whose War, Whose Fault? Visual Framing of the Ukraine Conflict in Western European Newspapers
TL;DR: This paper examined the visual coverage of the Ukraine conflict in The Guardian, Die Welt, Dagens Nyheter, and Helsingin Sanomat in terms of three dominant frames: national power struggle, as Russian intervention, and as geopolitical conflict.