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... than at any time does a simple reproduction of reality tell us anything about reality. A photograph of the Krupp works or GEC yields almost nothing about these institutions. Reality proper has slipped into the functional. The reification of human relationships, the factory, let’s say, no longer reveals these relationships. Therefore something has actually to be constructed, something artificial, something set up.
Based on lectures given at the Polytechnic of Central London and the Slade School of Fine Art, 1974.
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Notes and References
Walter Benjamin, ‘A Short History of Photography’, Screen, Spring 1972, p. 24.
Roland Barthes, ‘Rhetoric of the Image’, Working Papers in Cultural Studies, University of Birmingham, Spring 1971, p. 45.
Tzvetan Todorov, ‘Structural Analysis of Narrative’, Novel, vol. 3, Autumn 1969, p. 73.
Jacques Durand, ‘Rhétorique et image publicitaire’, Communications, vol. 15, 1970, pp. 70–95.
Jean-Marie Benoist, ‘The End of Structuralism’, Twentieth Century Studies, vol. 3, May 1970, p. 42.
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Burgin, V. (1982). Photographic Practice and Art Theory. In: Burgin, V. (eds) Thinking Photography. Communications and Culture. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-16716-6_4
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