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Roland Barthes writes, in Camera Lucida, about being photographed. The photograph “I intend,” he says,

represents that very subtle moment when, to tell the truth, I am neither subject nor object but a subject who feels he is becoming an object.

Though this passage is not at all about white-tailed deer, photographs I’ve taken of them were the first thing t…

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