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>barthes (myth), lefebvre (critique of everyday life), veblen (conspicuous consumption) and obviously debord (spectacle)?
other major touchstones per the Fragments interview also include Bataille, Rimbaud, Jarry, and Artaud. McLuhan is also important. Lefebvre: perhaps very little intellectual influence on Baudrillard and after about 1968 very little personal influence either. but Baudrillard was rightly suspicious of influence and deliberately tried to obscure and misdirect with his references. all of those names are not terribly useful for understanding his work.
>do you guys know much about them and baudrillard's relationship with photography?
he addresses it in numerous interviews from the 90s onwards and ideas on photography also makes its way into some of his later books (Intelligence of Evil, Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared?). someone needs to arrange to have his photographs shown more, especially in the U.S. I don't know who can make that happen, his wife who is still alive seems very pleased to help and attend those events. this is a very good recent paper on Baudrillard and photography:
https://baudrillardstudies.ubishops.ca/baudrillards-photographic-theory/