summary on camera lucida

roland barthes’ camera lucidasummary and lecture on

barbara leung

roland barthes (1915-80)french theorist and philosophercamera lucida; 1979re!ection on photography

understanding desireand nature of photography

foreword by geoff dyer“dismantling of own authority”

sontag (qtd in barthes xii)

secondary meaningonly extractable and possible with context

object of three practices:operator ; photographerspectator ; usspectrum ; target

a kind of little simulacrum...this word retains... a relation to ‘spectacle’ (9)

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intersection of two processes;chemical and physical

advent of myself as an other (13)“

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studium element creating interestin photograph in order of likingand culture being key

punctum that which bruises,disturbs the studium,and animates

functions;to inform, to represent,to surprise, to cause to signify,to provoke desire (28)

subversive when pensive

cinema presentsimmediate death of frame

photography is fastened down

concession to understanding desirebut not eidos of photography (60)

recreation and memory

and the lending ofoneself to photography (67)

power of authentication exceedsthat of representation (89)

the personal punctum;time

experiencing photographs andthe air and truth

noeme essence of photography“that has been”

taming the photograph bymaking it an art andbanalizing it

of photographyexamples

vs punctum“photographic shock”

Halsman, Philippe.Dali Atomicus. Personalities. Magnum Photos, 1948.

Meiselas, Susan.Muchachos Take over Neighborhood and Put on Captured National Guard Uniforms. NICARAGUA. Magnum Photos, Managua, 1981.

Klein, William.Professor Jean Bernard, Académie Française. The Cleveland Museum of Art Collection, 1989.

Towell, Larry.A Tear Gas Canister Is Caught in Mid-Air as It Is Shot through Clouds of Tear Gas as Riot Police Confront Protesters on Cote D'abraham near an Entrance Point of the 3.8 Km Wire Mesh Wall Constructed Prior to the Ftaa Summit of the Americas. Magnum Photos, Quebec City, 2001.

vs visitablehabitable

View of Eiffel Tower. The annual meeting of Magnum Photos stockholders, held in Paris. Over four days the members discuss photography and issues facing the company in the year ahead. Magnum Photos, Paris, 2008.

Qualls, Larry.Boys Cutting through a Hedge, Vancouver. Contemporary Art (Larry Qualls Archive), Vancouver 2003.

of eroticismanimation

Kaprow, Allan.Rates of Exchange: Clothing: Det.: Woman Undressing. 1975.

Kaprow, Allan.Rates of Exchange: Clothing: Det.: Woman Undressing. 1975.

studiumshared

Union Square. 1910. Shorpy Historical Photo Archive, New York.

as punctumtime

Delano, Jack. The Handsome Family. 1941. Resettlement Administration, Lacona.

Eisenstaedt, Alfred.V-J Day Times Square. 1945.

Scianna, Ferdinando. French Writer and Semologist Roland Barthes. 1977. Magnum Photos, Paris.

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