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To cite this article: Jacques Rancire (2009) Do Pictures Really Want to Live?, Culture, Theory and
Critique, 50:2-3, 123-132, DOI: 10.1080/14735780903240083
To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14735780903240083
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What should we understand by the phrase pictorial turn? It is clear that Tom
Mitchell coined the expression as a response to the linguistic turn. It remains
to be seen, however, what response means in this context. Of course, this
depends on what we take the expression linguistic turn to mean. Now that
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This is a reference to Robert Franks Parade Hoboken, New Jersey, 1955. [Editors
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The Guerrilla Girls are a group of feminist activists, founded in 1985, to protest
against sexism and misogyny in the art world by, to cite their website, producing posters, billboards, public actions, books, and other projects to make feminism funny and
fashionable. They assumed the names of dead artists and wore gorilla masks in
public, concealing their identities and focusing on the issues rather than their personalities (http://www.guerrillagirls.com, accessed 17 February 2009). [Translators note]
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Jacques Rancire has provided a more detailed reading of Jaars work in the
essay LImage intolrable in his recent book, Le Spectateur mancip (2008: 93114).
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Reference is being made here to W. J. T. Mitchells discussion of photographic
essays by James Agee and Walker Evans, and Erskine Calderwell and Margaret
Bourke-White (Mitchell 1994: 281322). [Editors note]
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