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  1. Picture Theory: Essays on Verbal and Visual Representation.W. J. T. Mitchell - 1995 - University of Chicago Press.
    What precisely, W. J. T. Mitchell asks, are pictures (and theories of pictures) doing now, in the late twentieth century, when the power of the visual is said to be greater than ever before, and the "pictorial turn" supplants the "linguistic turn" in the study of culture? This book by one of America's leading theorists of visual representation offers a rich account of the interplay between the visible and the readable across culture, from literature to visual art to the mass (...)
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  • Camera Lucida : reflections on photography.Roland Barthes - 2010 - In Christopher Want (ed.), Philosophers on Art From Kant to the Postmodernists: A Critical Reader. Columbia University Press.
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  • The threshold of the visible world.Kaja Silverman - 1996 - New York: Routledge.
    The Threshold of the Visible World advances a revolutionary new political aesthetic--Kaja Silverman explores the possibilities for looking beyond the restrictive mandates of the self, and the normative aspects of the cultural image-repertoire. She provides a detailed account of the social and psychic forces which constrain us to look and identify in normative ways, and the violence which that normativity implies. Accounting for these phenomena on both a conscious and an unconcious level, Silverman analyzes the psychic and textual conditions under (...)
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  • On Photography.Susan Sontag - 1978 - Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 36 (4):514-515.
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  • Knowing Stephanie.Charlee Brodsky, Stephanie Byram & Jennifer Matesa - 2003 - University of Pittsburgh Press.
    A memoir of one womanÆs struggle against breast cancer reveals how she channeled her energy to transform her life, even as she was dying.
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  • Remembering Stephanie.C. Brodsky - 2015 - Journal of Bioethical Inquiry 12 (1):33-49.
    by Charlee BrodskyStephanie Byram was my friend. She died of breast cancer at age thirty-eight on June 9, 2001. She lived eight years after the disease was discovered.With her cancer diagnosis at age thirty, Stephanie’s life changed. She became more known to others than she would have otherwise. She always had a close circle of friends who were drawn to her because of her candor, her intellect, her impish humor, her steadiness, her sensitivity. But after her diagnosis, many more people (...)
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