Overcome by Photography:<i>Camera Lucida</i>in an International Frame

Alpert, Avram

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“…The attention invested by the viewer to the image produces a life force from which punctum erupts creating what Shurkus (2014) calls a "phenomenological experience" between the image and the viewer. Such experience is further expanded by Alpert (2010) endowing Barthes" semiotic analysis of a photographic image another layer of symbolic power. For Alpert (2010), the punctum is the wound that erupts in reality that in closer and in more engaged viewing becomes reality itself.…”

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“…Such experience is further expanded by Alpert (2010) endowing Barthes" semiotic analysis of a photographic image another layer of symbolic power. For Alpert (2010), the punctum is the wound that erupts in reality that in closer and in more engaged viewing becomes reality itself. Alpert"s statement is resonant in the way the Aylan photo became a wounding reality that dominated both the online news media landscape and current discourses on the "war on terror".…”

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“…Does this mean then that the photo cannot stand on its own merits without the power of words? That the wounding reality that both Alpert (2010) and Barthes (1981) assert in relation to the punctum becomes irrelevant?…”

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Mediated Compassion and the Politics of Displaced Bodies

Pascasio¹

2017

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In media"s attempt to humanize the impact of war, dramatic images of disgruntled human bodies seeking refuge in faraway lands have become symbols of suffering and calls for humanitarian action. However, some media scholars are claiming that compassion fatigue is desensitizing media audiences to the human cost of war. This article argues that certain images resonate with greater signification that offers new ways of looking at compassion as a form of dialogue. The photo of Kim Phuc, the young Vietnamese girl burned by napalm on the fields of Vietnam stands out in our collective memory. There are many others but only a few attain such iconic status. And as war becomes more politically complex, so too are media"s role in portraying the suffering of children especially in the context of forced migration. The photographic image of the three-year old Syrian boy, Aylan Kurdi, washed ashore on a beach in Turkey and the many discourses it engendered represent a new mediated form of human suffering. As Barthes argued, there is a difference between a photograph that "shouts" and a photograph that "wounds". The swift refugee policy changes expressed by some world leaders days after Aylan"s image came out in mass media is revealing on many levels. Drawing from online media coverage of this particular media event, this article argues that media"s dialogic potential problematizes competing arguments between moral obligation and moral imperialism where culture and race are implicated in policy decisions on refugeehood and cultural integration.

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Mediated Compassion and the Politics of Displaced Bodies

Pascasio¹

2017

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“…Although Camera Lucida has understandably carried resonance for those interested in photography (Rau 2006;Levy 2009;Alpert 2010), what is also inescapable is its association with mourning. The second section in particular documents Barthes' experience of sorting through the photographs of his mother shortly after her passing.…”

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Mourning Geography: A Punctum, Strathclyde and the Death of a Subject

Chan

2011

Scottish Geographical Journal

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This article documents the formal consultation held at the University of Strathclyde in 2011 which concluded with a decision to withdraw the geography programme from the academic curriculum. In examining the remains of this consultation, the article offers an understanding of the reactions of staff and students to the proposed closure through the theoretical work on mourning by Roland Barthes and Jacques Derrida. With use of the notions of punctum and studium in particular, it tracks the discursive location, if not definition, of what was and is poignant about geography at this higher education institution.

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Overcome by Photography:Camera Lucidain an International Frame

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