... the metaphor of photography—and the photographic negative, in particular—in order to illustrate his theory of the unconscious. Far from simply producing a transparent image of reality, Kofman shows how Freud used photography to help illustrate the way human perception is structured to suit the demands...

... Through a close reading of some of the 7,600 photographs produced by the Colonial Office Visual Instruction Committee (COVIC) between 1908 and 1911—a scheme developed by the British government that used lantern slides to teach schoolchildren what it meant to look and feel like an imperial...

... by political violence and, moreover, that sovereign structures and strictures can be observed in the photographic situation. The Bang-Bang Club’s images did not manage to expose the political nuances of the period of transition in South Africa. Rather, they became sites through which political power struggle...