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- Title
Nothing to Say: The War on Terror and the Mad Photography of Roland Barthes.
- Authors
BECKMAN, KAREN
- Abstract
The article focuses on the debate surrounding photography's role in shaping history and responses to events and images of events. It cites the important role played by the works of Roland Barthes in contemporary theoretical rethinking of photography. It details the relation of photography to narrative knowledge and information. It notes the importance of the relation among the material form of the photograph, the temporality of the photograph and the temporality of photographic theory.
- Subjects
PHOTOGRAPHY; HISTORY; BARTHES, Roland, 1915-1980; PHOTOJOURNALISM; PHOTOGRAPHS
- Publication
Grey Room, 2009, Vol 34, p104
- ISSN
1526-3819
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1162/grey.2009.1.34.104