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12:41 AM

Q: Writers or critics that wrote about photography's place in art?

I have two names Roland Barthes "Camera Lucida" and Susan Sontag "On Photography". Can you recommend any other books similar two the ones listed above?

roland-barthes

BESW

1:16 AM

“Write What You Don’t Know:” Write Magazine Editor Resigns after Cultural Appropriation Article… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/862472514978676737

Tweeted by indiancountry on May 11, 2017 at 1:00 AM

Riker

1:58 AM

hammertime

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Mithrandir

7:05 AM

@Riker hammered

Gallifreyan

7:49 AM

That's a very creepy Morpheus art. But faithful too (cc @Shokhet).

user61230

8:30 AM

@Gallifreyan I need to run this through Deep Dream.

Gallifreyan

@Emrakul Post results :)

user61230

Yikes.

user61230

Less than I thought, but the effect is subtle.

Gallifreyan

Huh. Looks nice :)

More or less in line with what we see in the comics :)

user61230

8:46 AM

Yeah, oddly, I can't seem to get Deep Dream to change the image much at all.

reddit_10

1:35 PM

Is this a place where I can ask a question about literature ?

Gallifreyan

@reddit_10 This chat is the place where you can ask anything

Within reasonable bounds. I can't help you myself, by @Hamlet had said he could.

reddit_10

Ok thanks

Mithrandir

@reddit_10 What kind of questions are you thinking of?

Hamlet

2:21 PM

@reddit_10 you might enjoy reading the book The Echo of Things: The Lives of Photographs in the Solomon Islands

Haven't actually read it myself; just heard someone recommend it a while back.

b_jonas

2:32 PM

Q: What is the name of this book about soccer and oranges?

I read a book in the mid to late nineties that I don't have any clue how to search for. Here are the things that I remember from this book: The main character was younger than 18 and he had a vision problem. The kid played soccer, and was a goalie. The book had a few different parts where it...

story-identification

> I believe the setting of the book was Florida, but that might just be from the oranges.

^ I thought oranges come from the Mediterranean (Greece and Italy and Spain), and possibly from South America. But apparently Americans have different associations.

reddit_10

3:16 PM

@Mithrandir I am thinking more of someone that treated the photography subject just like Barthes did in his book Camera Lucida.

@Hamlet ok i will give it a try.

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BESW

10:26 PM

Another mystery solved down at the library. https://t.co/UAYy2fzmpa

Tweeted by JohnFinnemore on May 11, 2017 at 12:38 PM

Comic book sound effects, 1939-1985.

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Bookworm

11:54 PM

Q: Trying to Find a Sexual Double Entendre Poem

There was a poem that I studied back in high school that at first glance was all about flowers and butterflies, pistils, proboscises and the like but after further analysis was extremely explicit. I have tried in earnest to find it but I cannot. Does this ring a bell with anyone? Has someone ever...