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Photography degree zero: reflection on Roland Barthe's Camera Lucida

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Photography Degree Zero is the first anthology of writings on Roland Barthe's Camera Lucida. It includes essays written soon after Barthes’s book appeared as well as more recent rereadings of it, some previously unpublished. The variety of perspectives included in this publication, and the focus on Camera Lucida in the context of photography rather than literature or philosophy, servetoreopen a vital conversation on Barthes’s influential work.

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Picturing atrocity: photography in crisis

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Ever since the landmark publication of Susan Sontag’s On Photography, it has been impossible to look at photographs, particularly those of violence and suffering, without questioning our role as photographic voyeur. Are we desensitized by the proliferation of these images, and does this make it easier to be passive and uninvolved? Or do the images immediately stir our own sense of justice and act as a call to arms? Are we consuming the suffering of others as a form of intrigue? Or is it an act of empathy? To answer these questions, Picturing Atrocity brings together writers and critics on photography today to offer close readings of images that reveal the realities behind the photographs, the subjects, and the photographers. From the massacre of the Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee to the torture of prisoners at Abu Ghraib, from famine in China to apartheid in South Africa, Picturing Atrocity examines a broad spectrum of photographs. Each of the essays focuses specifically on an iconic image, offering a distinct approach and context, in order to enable us to look again—and this time more closely—at the picture. In addition, four photo-essays showcase the work of photographers involved in the making of photographs of brutality as well as the artists’ own reflections on these images.