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Abstract
In July 2013, mother and daughter Lihie and Ruti Talmor travelled to Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee, walking in the footsteps of a young, not- yet-famous Elvis Presley. The journey was a quest for something much larger than him. Using Roland Barthes’ notion of the punctum, Ruti investigates how Lihie Talmor’s photogravure of Dauphin Island shows us how the layering of time and loss creates the meaning of place.
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