Identity without Similarity: The Relation between the Individual and Her Picture

“This is me” we tend to say about photographs of ourselves—which is remarkable given that the image with which we identify is a two-dimensional visual taken from a very specific moment in our past. And yet the image is interpreted as an icon or an index of our present being. The problem of seeing si...

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Main Author: Maja Jerrentrup
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Alberta 2020-03-01
Series:Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Media Studies
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Online Access:https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/imaginations/index.php/imaginations/article/view/29446