photophobia

Etymology 1

photo- + -phobia

noun

  1. (medicine) Excessive sensitivity to light and the aversion to bright light; abnormal fear of light.

Etymology 2

photo (“photograph”) + -phobia

noun

  1. An aversion to or fear of being photographed, the dissemination of personal photographs, or viewing photographs.
    Photophobia was the latest affliction of Afghan officialdom—by contagion, probably, from Persia which tries to nip in the bud pictures that show her not yet entirely modern. 1947, Ella K. Maillart, The Cruel Way: Switzerland to Afghanistan in a Ford, 1939, University of Chicago Press, published 2013, page 152
    Craig Armstrong doesn't want to be photographed. His record company wouldn't like it, he says, and besides he has flu so he looks a little puffy. So "orders" and vanity combine to stop the shoot, due to take place in a trendy bar in Glasgow's West End. The cynic may see alternative reasons for the 39-year-old composer's photophobia, […] 2 April 1998, Barry Didcock, “How to score with Madonna (or U2 or Leonard DiCaprio)”, in The Scotsman
    He concludes that Mapplethorpe blocks racist photophobia by making the nudes whose penises are not visible highly erotic, while using blatantly penis-focused images to force white viewers to recognize that when they see a black man, they see him not just in possession of a large penis, but actually as a penis (Mercer 1991; Fanon 1952/2008). 2013, Douglas Crimp, “'Tell a Story, Save a Life' (Montage 1987-89)”, in Brenda Longfellow, Scott MacKenzie, Thomas Waugh, editors, The Perils of Pedagogy: The Works of John Greyson, McGill-Queen's University Press

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