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The State Of Being Single: Justyna Badach's Bachelor Series, Pamela Warner
The State Of Being Single: Justyna Badach's Bachelor Series, Pamela Warner
Pamela J. Warner
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Human Rights In Camera, Sharon Sliwinski
Human Rights In Camera, Sharon Sliwinski
Sharon Sliwinski
From the fundamental rights proclaimed in the American and French declarations of independence to the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Hannah Arendt’s furious critiques, the definition of what it means to be human has been hotly debated. But the history of human rights—and their abuses—is also a richly illustrated one. Following this picture trail, Human Rights In Camera takes an innovative approach by examining the visual images that have accompanied human rights struggles and the passionate responses people have had to them.
Icarus Returned: The Falling Man And The Survival Of Antiquity, Sharon Sliwinski
Icarus Returned: The Falling Man And The Survival Of Antiquity, Sharon Sliwinski
Sharon Sliwinski
This chapter examines the so-called "Falling Man" photograph: Richard Drew's infamous image of an anonymous man in free fall, following his jump from the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Using Aby Warburg's iconographical method, I read this figure as a latter-day Icarus, putting Drew's photograph in dialogue with other representations of Icarus as a way to explore the image's unconscious force.