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Tag Archives: Camera Lucida

Photography, Memory and a Wave of Destruction

AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev It is a simple, yet a strikingly powerful image: a woman looks at family photographs found in the rubble of the devastating earthquake and tsunami. The photographs have been meticulously cleaned and left to dry on clothing pegs in a school gymnasium in the town of Natori, Miyagi prefecture. Survivors are given…

April 15, 2011 in Memory, Photography, Photojournalism, Religion, Vernacularism.

Post-Mortem Photography is Alive

Parents posing with their deceased daughter. In this classic example of post-mortem photography, a mother and a father are sitting next to their deceased daughter. The long exposure of the camera has the eery effect that the daughter is completely in focus, while the parents, the live subjects in the frame, are blurry. The photographer…

February 4, 2011 in Art, Iconography, Memory, Photography, Photojournalism, Voyeurism.
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