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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Language: | English |
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University of Alberta
2020-03-01
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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 |