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Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (French: La Chambre claire, pronounced [la ʃɑ̃bʁ klɛʁ]) is a short book published in 1980 by the French literary theorist and philosopher Roland Barthes. It is simultaneously an inquiry into the nature and essence of photography and a eulogy to Barthes' late mother. The book investigates the ...
Pierre Dubreuil was born in a wealthy family, well established in the wallpaper trade. In 1888 he joined the Jesuit College of Saint-Joseph in Lille and started to take pictures with a half-plate camera aged sixteen.
Humanist Photography, also known as the School of Humanist Photography, [1] manifests the Enlightenment philosophical system in social documentary practice based on a perception of social change. It emerged in the mid-twentieth-century and is associated most strongly with Europe, particularly France , [ 2 ] where the upheavals of the two world ...
In 1889 he published a controversial and influential book Naturalistic Photography for Students of the Art, in which he explained his philosophy of art and straightforward photography. The book was described by one writer as "the bombshell dropped at the tea party" because of the case it made that truthful and realistic photographs would ...
45 Stephen Hawking Quotes. 1. “Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.” 2. “It would not be much of a universe if it wasn’t home to the people you love.”
Minor Martin White (July 9, 1908 – June 24, 1976) was an American photographer, theoretician, critic, and educator.. White made photographs of landscapes, people, and abstract subject matter.
Embrace these quotes from one of the founding fathers of Western philosophy.
Siegfried Kracauer's theories on memory revolved around the idea that memory was under threat and was being challenged by modern forms of technology. [7] His most often cited example was the comparison of memory to photography.