Tag: Roland Barthes
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Perfect and ephemeral: Chaplin as cinematic sign
Driving back and forth past this outhouse on the small island of Waiheke in New Zealand/Aotearoa over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been struck by the incongruity of finding this image of Charlie Chaplin at what feels like, from a Eurocentric perspective, the edge of the world. The figure of Chaplin dressed in the…
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Beautiful decay (extended version): Darren Andrews’ Beloved
This is the introductory essay I wrote for Beloved, the latest book by Darren Andrews which features this series of photographs, and which is available from his website. The essay is an expanded version of the exhibition notes which were in an earlier blog post on this site. Death is the principal subject of photography. The fascination a photograph…
Bruce Bennett 