Photography has transformed the way we picture ourselves. Although photographs seem to "prove" our existence at a given point in time, they also demonstrate the impossibility of framing our multiple and fragmented selves. As the author of this study aims to show, photography's double-take on self-im[...]
In 1957, a decade before Roland Barthes announced the death of the author, Francois Truffaut called for a new era in which films would "resemble the person who made" them and be "even more personal" than an autobiographical novel. More than five decades on, it seems that Barthes has won the argu[...]