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... In this interview with Elisabeth Lebovici, Zoe Leonard explains how her camerae obscurae explore photographic seeing. The camerae obscurae provide a way to go back to the beginning of photography, and to expand the ways in which one can experience, understand, and see photography. For Leonard...

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... French philosopher Sarah Kofman examines the role that photography played in Sigmund Freud’s theoretical elaboration of the human psyche. In this excerpt from her book Camera Obscura: Of Ideology , first published in French in 1973, Kofman tracks the ways Freud explicitly and repeatedly used...

... The concluding chapter reflects on the stakes of giving the camera to the other by meditating on the concepts of the gift and documentary. It relates Marcel Mauss’s discussion of the mutual dispossession involved in gift exchange to Thomas Keenan’s discussion of human rights claims. The author...