Roland Barthes was a French literary
theorist, philosopher, linguist, critic, and semiotician. He is an author of
the book titled "Camera Lucida". The book is a collection of Barthes
ideas and thoughts about photography. He claimed that to describe a photography
we have to think about punctum and studium. Puctum is a "detail" a
partial object, it presents the viewers emotions towards this photography.
While studium is more clear. Studium is everything we can see on the picture.
Quotes:
“The photograph mechanically repeats what could never be repeated existentially.”
“Photograph is never anything but an antiphon of “Look”.”
“A photograph is always invisible: it is not it that we see.”
“The operator is the photographer. The spectator is ourselves, all of us who glance through collections of photographs – in magazines and newspapers, in books, albums, archives.”
“I feel myself observed by the lens, everything changes: I constitute myself in the process of ‘posing’, I instantaneously make another body for myself, I transform myself in advance into an image.”
“I feel that photograph creates my body or mortifies it, according to its caprice.”
“Photography transformed subject into object and even, one might say, into a museum object”
“The photograph mechanically repeats what could never be repeated existentially.”
“Photograph is never anything but an antiphon of “Look”.”
“A photograph is always invisible: it is not it that we see.”
“The operator is the photographer. The spectator is ourselves, all of us who glance through collections of photographs – in magazines and newspapers, in books, albums, archives.”
“I feel myself observed by the lens, everything changes: I constitute myself in the process of ‘posing’, I instantaneously make another body for myself, I transform myself in advance into an image.”
“I feel that photograph creates my body or mortifies it, according to its caprice.”
“Photography transformed subject into object and even, one might say, into a museum object”
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