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Into the Universe of Technical Images (Electronic Mediations)
Brought to Light: Photography and the Invisible, 1840-1900
Ghost Image
Stieglitz On Photography: His Selected Essays and Notes
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American Photography (Oxford History of Art)
Vitamin Ph: New Perspectives in Photography
Roland Barthes
Another unary photograph is the pornographic photograph (I am not saying the erotic photograph: the erotic is a pornographic that has been disturbed, fissured). Nothing more homogeneous than a pornographic photograph. It is always a naive photograph, without intention and without calculation. Like a shop window which shows only one illuminated piece of jewelry, it is completely constituted by the presentation of only one thing: sex: no secondary, untimely object ever manages to half conceal, del ...more
Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography

Roland Barthes
The (i)studium(i) is ultimately always coded, the (i)punctum is not)...
Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography

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