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Arresting Beauty: Julia Margaret Cameron at Jeu de Paume
I was first introduced to the 19th century British photographer Julia Margaret Cameron as an undergraduate art history student, through photographs like The Parting of Sir Lancelot and Queen Guinevere. My professor did his best to present her as an artist in her own right, sandwiched chronologically between Henry Peach Robinson and Timothy O’Sullivan, but…
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Alice Neel’s “Ethel Ashton” (1930) // A Diary
The following essay was written over a period of three months as a real-time diary of my reactions to a painting featured in the exhibit Alice Neel: un regard engagé at the Centre Pompidou, on display from 5 October 2022 to 16 January 2023. First encounter I came to this exhibit not because of its…
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On Camera Lucida, photographic proof, and a small farm in Sweden
Despite the fact that I’ve spent a lot of time studying and thinking about photography, it was only recently that I read Roland Barthes’ Camera Lucida for the first time. (This is perhaps chalked up to my aversion to reading anything by Barthes — an attitude that stems from reverberations of the fear that Barthes’…
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