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A review by jamorley
Camera Lucida: Vintage Design Edition by Roland Barthes
4.0
Barthes hated: having his picture taken, the unury photograph, cousins
Barthes loved: the sound of a mechanic shutter, his mum.
An interesting perspective on the link between photography and death. Barthes champions a purely subjective mode of seeing as the only way to uncover (or create) the punctum that gives a photograph its worth, while the studium—the objective meaning—is relegated to the status of "usual blah-blah."
He agrees with Sontag that the proliferation of photographic images "completely de-realizes the human world of conflicts and desires, under cover of illustrating it."
Barthes loved: the sound of a mechanic shutter, his mum.
An interesting perspective on the link between photography and death. Barthes champions a purely subjective mode of seeing as the only way to uncover (or create) the punctum that gives a photograph its worth, while the studium—the objective meaning—is relegated to the status of "usual blah-blah."
He agrees with Sontag that the proliferation of photographic images "completely de-realizes the human world of conflicts and desires, under cover of illustrating it."