Writing tagged: ‘photography’
Articles primarily about photography.
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Book review: ‘Camera Lucida’ by Roland Barthes
A grandiloquent analysis of our most accessible means of visual representation, the photograph.
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LRB letter: ‘The reaction economy’
On Charles Darwin’s use of photography in his book about human and animal emotions.
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Newsletter No. 30: ‘Ming’
Fabulous birds • Rebecca Solnit • Webb Space Telescope • Stonehenge • book reviews • cutting some crap • and more…
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Newsletter No. 29: ‘An inspiration’
David Hockney • starling murmurations • ancient scripts • wet plate photography • Amy Liptrot • Black Death! • book reviews
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Sibling rivalry
In nature, individuals aren’t just in competition with the elements or other species.
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The gaping void between fact and fiction
Fact and fiction are discrete things, not parts of a continuum.
