summary on camera lucida
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Summary Roland Barthes' 1979 work, Camera LucidaTRANSCRIPT
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.
