To photograph is in some way to appropriate the object being photo-graphed. It is a power/knowledge relationship. To have visual knowledge of an object is in part to have power, even if only momentarily, over it. – John Urry in The Tourist Gaze. I picked up a book, what seemed like a bog-standard picture book,…
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Two Easy Pieces on Journalism and Journalists, and The Media
I wrote a couple of pieces on journalism and the news media, in general, in my Daily Maverick column. I place excerpts, here, with links to the original posts. All my Daily Maverick columns are available here. Click on image to get to the column