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David Levi-Strauss: It Hurts to Look  (link) A published essay from David Levi-Strauss: Between the Eyes: Essays on Photography,   2003 in Aperture David Levi-Strauss: Photography & Politics Aperture: Between the Eyes: Essays on Photography & Politics The Medium is the Massage. An Inventory of Effects  by cultural theorist, Marshall McLuhan and visual designer, Quentin Fiore Camera Lucida: Reflections of Photography   by Roland Barthes,  post structuralist philosophy + cultural theorist  Free PDF  available Above, an illustration of the  1807 Camera Lucida  as a drawing tool invented by  Sir William Hyde Wollaston , bringing life drawing to a whole new level. Rrose is a Rrose is a Rrose: Gender Performance in Photography by Nancy Spector & Jennifer Blessing   Synopsis:   The Guggenheim's classic study of photo-based artworks that question gender identity i...
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David Levi-Strauss: Aesthetics & Anaestheitcs essay

David Levi-Strauss: The Documentary Debate: Aesthetic or Anaesthetic? Taken from Between and Wolf Essays on Art and Politics (2010) [...] The September 9, 1991 issue of the New Yorker carried an article by Ingrid Sischy, titled “Good Intentions,” on the work of Brazilian photographer Sebastiao Salgado. Sischy upbraids Salgado for being too popular and too successful, and also for being too “uncompromisingly serious” and “weighty”; for being opportunistic and self-aggrandizing, and also too idealistic; for being too spiritual, and also for being “kitschy” and “schmaltzy.” But Sischy’s real complaint about Salgado’s photographs is that they threaten the boundary between aesthetics and politics. The complaint is couched in the familiar terms of a borrowed political critique: Salgado is too busy with the compositional aspects of his pictures—and with finding the “grace” and “beauty” in the twisted form of his anguished subjects. And this beautification of tragedy results in pi...
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