“The photograph is like old age: even in its splendor, it disincarnates the face, manifests its genetic essence.”
-Roland Barthes in Camera Lucida
Upon reading this quote, I thought of a photograph that I took about a year ago on the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan. An old man [...]
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Tom D.
“This fatality (no photograph without something or someone) involves photography in the vast disorder of objects-of all the objects in the world: why choose (why photograph) this object, this moment, rather than some other? Photography is unclassifiable because there is no reason to mark this or that of its occurrences;”
-Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida
By: CaptainQuerty
The photograph [...]
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-Beth P.
“What the Photograph reproduces to infinity has occurred only once: the Photograph mechanically repeats what could never be repeated existentially.”
– Barthes, Camera Lucida (Pg 4)
I chose the above quote from Camera Lucida because, out of the whole of the novel, this line, barely four pagesin, stuck out in my mind strongest. On [...]
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By Ann C
“Perhaps true, total photography, he thought, is a pile of fragments of private images, against the creased background of massacres and coronations.” “Adventures of a Photographer” (Calvino 186)
Photo by Katie, Flickr username: At~A~Glance
This picture, Incomplete, relates to several topics that we discussed in class and saw in the readings. Its caption reminded [...]
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“In front of the lens, I am at the same time: the one I think I am, the one I want others to think I am, the one the photographer thinks I am, and the one he makes use of to exhibit his art.” Barthes Camera Lucida 13
Cosplay is when a person dress up as a character [...]
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