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| | Polaroid Camera History |
 | | On the contrary, the use of the Polaroid in the party situation signals a departure from the conventional phenomenology of the photograph. |
 | | Perhaps Barthes shunned the Polaroid because is presents a challenge to the "temporal anteriority" he claimed to be essential to the photograph, see "Rhetoric of the Image" in Image, Music, Text, Stephen Heath, trans. |
 | | It should be noted, however, that a Polaroid appears as the frontispiece to certain editions of Camera Lucida, though it goes unmentioned in the text, and that Barthes' theory of Punctum reinstates an essential presence to the medium (see Camera Lucida, p. |
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