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Dubreuil's work was largely forgotten after his death in 1944 until Tom Jacobson, a San Diego, California-based collector, rediscovered his work. Dubreuil first caught Jacobson's attention in the late 1970s, when Jacobson saw works by Dubreuil in photography annuals such as The American Annual of Photography and Photographs of the Year. [4]
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 ...
Sequences, The journey of the spirit after death, Chance meeting; photographs Duane Michals ( / ˈ m aɪ k əl z / "Michaels"; born February 18, 1932) is an American photographer . [ 1 ] Michals's work makes innovative use of photo-sequences, often incorporating text to examine emotion and philosophy.
Susan Lee Sontag (/ ˈ s ɒ n t æ ɡ /; January 16, 1933 – December 28, 2004) was an American writer, critic, and public intellectual.She mostly wrote essays, but also published novels; she published her first major work, the essay "Notes on 'Camp' ", in 1964.
Baudrillard was born in Reims, northeastern France, on 27 July 1929.His grandparents were farm workers and his father a gendarme.During high school (at the Lycée at Reims), he became aware of 'pataphysics, a parody of the philosophy of science, via philosophy professor Emmanuel Peillet, which is said to be crucial for understanding Baudrillard's later thought.
Roman Krznaric suggests memento mori is an important topic to bring back into our thoughts and belief system; "Philosophers have come up with lots of what I call 'death tasters' – thought experiments for seizing the day." These thought experiments are powerful to get us re-oriented back to death into current awareness and living with spontaneity.
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Ian Dryden (29 December 1944 – 30 May 1993), also known as Ian Dryden Pyle, [1] was a Scottish photojournalist and arts photographer who worked in Edinburgh, California and Mexico prior to his death from lung cancer in 1993 at the age of 48.