-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 [...]
Filed under: Photography, Roland Barthes, Student Posts
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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 [...]
Filed under: Assignments, Italo Calvino, Memory, Photography, Roland Barthes, Student Posts, Temple, Uncategorized
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