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Photography and the Optical Unconscious
Language: en
Pages: 430
Authors: Shawn Michelle Smith
Categories: Photography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-05-04 - Publisher: Duke University Press

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Photography is one of the principal filters through which we engage the world. The contributors to this volume focus on Walter Benjamin's concept of the optical
The Optical Unconscious
Language: en
Pages: 374
Authors: Rosalind E. Krauss
Categories: Design
Type: BOOK - Published: 1994-07-25 - Publisher: MIT Press

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The Optical Unconscious is a pointed protest against the official story of modernism and against the critical tradition that attempted to define modern art acco
At the Edge of Sight
Language: en
Pages: 320
Authors: Shawn Michelle Smith
Categories: Photography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-11-04 - Publisher: Duke University Press

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The advent of photography revolutionized perception, making visible what was once impossible to see with the human eye. In At the Edge of Sight, Shawn Michelle
Camera Lucida
Language: en
Pages: 134
Authors: Roland Barthes
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 1981 - Publisher: Macmillan

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"Examining the themes of presence and absence, the relationship between photography and theatre, history and death, these 'reflections on photography' begin as
Photographic Returns
Language: en
Pages: 177
Authors: Shawn Michelle Smith
Categories: Photography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-01-03 - Publisher: Duke University Press

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In Photographic Returns Shawn Michelle Smith traces how historical moments of racial crisis come to be known photographically and how the past continues to inha