camera80.blog » Readings http://blog.camera80.ro for your daily contemporary photography needs. Mon, 04 May 2009 14:13:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Walter Benjamin – The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction http://blog.camera80.ro/walter-benjamin-the-work-of-art-in-the-age-of-mechanical-reproduction http://blog.camera80.ro/walter-benjamin-the-work-of-art-in-the-age-of-mechanical-reproduction#comments Fri, 23 Feb 2007 02:08:43 +0000 Tudor http://blog.camera80.ro/walter-benjamin-the-work-of-art-in-the-age-of-mechanical-reproduction/ The equipment-free aspect of reality here has become the height of artifice; the sight of immediate reality has become an orchid in the land of technology.

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]]> http://blog.camera80.ro/walter-benjamin-the-work-of-art-in-the-age-of-mechanical-reproduction/feed 0 Roland Barthes http://blog.camera80.ro/roland-barthes http://blog.camera80.ro/roland-barthes#comments Fri, 16 Feb 2007 11:47:40 +0000 Tudor http://blog.camera80.ro/roland-barthes/ Roland Barthes was a French literary critic, literary and social theorist, philosopher, and semiotician. Barthes’s work extended over many fields and he influenced the development of schools of theory including structuralism, semiology, existentialism, Marxism and post-structuralism.

A synopsis of Barthes’ “Rhetoric of the Image”.

More info on Wikipedia.

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