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CAMERA LUCIDA2 comments

splashingpaint wrote 1 day ago: There is something irresistible about things in little wooden boxes. A friend lent me this old Camer … more →

Tags: Art Materials, Photography, Weird, Drawing, Sketches

Do we see what we are? - Camera Lucida (Barthes section) 242 comments

Roger wrote 1 month ago: Roland Barthes in his book  Camera Lucida (section 24 p60 (final section in Part 1) says; “Pro … more →

Tags: Eternal moments, Learning photography, Great Photographers, The feeling of photography, reading photographs, Aesthetic experience, Aesthetics of photography, compassion, consciousness raising

Do your photographs help you understand yourself and your life more?

Roger wrote 1 month ago: How do we read this photograph of the artist Alision Lapper with her son Parys?  Does Roland Barthes … more →

Tags: Photography, Eternal moments, Learning photography, Great Photographers, reading photographs, Taking Photographs, Aesthetic experience, Aesthetics of photography, compassion

Camera Lucida 1 (1981) by Roland Barthes

Hugh wrote 2 months ago: from The Photography Reader, edited by Liz Wells Roland Barthes’ Camera Lucida is a classic te … more →

Tags: Photography Theory, Photography, NCAD, Visual culture, Roland Barthes, Philosophy, Realism

An Art History Book That Will Change Your Life1 comment

Lauren Gentile wrote 4 months ago: My talented and very intelligent boss changed my life on Saturday by bringing in the new expanded ve … more →

Tags: art book reviews, art world terminology, Dutch art market, Irvine Contemporary, Lauren Gentile, Modern Photography, Portrait of Lorenzo de'Medici, Specullector, Vintage photography

PHOTOGRAPHY & OTHER MODES OF CRYING AT YOUR OWN FUNERAL

mattgonzalez wrote 4 months ago: 1865 photograph of Lewis Powell who stabbed US Secretary of State William Seward repeatedly in an un … more →

Tags: Mishana Hosseinioun, Stanley Tookie Williams, Antoin Sevruguin, A Thief Being Buried Alive, Roland Barthes, Walter Benjamin, Paralipomena to 'On the Concept of History', Lee, Harper, William Arntz

early cameras and processes4 comments

portiaplacino wrote 6 months ago: last one for this time… please naman, makisama ka smart bro… its the power point on earl … more →

Tags: Photography, History of Photography, Joseph Nicéphore Niepce, jean jacques made daguerre, William Henry Fox Talbot, camera obscura

Quote of the Day1 comment

planetcity1 wrote 6 months ago:     As long as there’s journalism, there will be photojournalism. They’re two halves of … more →

Tags: Photography, Life, Quote, Art, Philosophy, Thought of the day, Photographer, World, film

No More Secrets 3 comments

drsteer wrote 7 months ago: Last week I read another essay about Barthes’ Camera Lucida – “Touching Photograph … more →

Tags: Photography, affect, barthes, failure of representation, longing, Loss, Melancholy

Cabinetmaking

Alicia wrote 9 months ago: The Cornell-inspired wood boxes (see photos in entry “Utopia Parkway” 3/21/09 below) I h … more →

Tags: Annette Messager, barthes, forests, Joseph Cornell, michael fried, Photography, Theatricality, wood boxes

Using a Camera Lucida14 comments

caseytoussaint wrote 10 months ago: I’ve been reading Secret Knowledge by David Hockney recently and it got me interested in tryin … more →

Tags: Uncategorized

Looking to be touched

Alicia wrote 10 months ago: Katie said this beautiful phrase, seeming to sum up so much. We were trying to find what it is about … more →

Tags: Annette Messager, Photography, barthes

my photo of sky

terumbukarya wrote 11 months ago: enjoy my collection … more →

George wrote 11 months ago: Câteva cuvinte pe care mi le-am notat din Barthes – Camera Lucida – recitind cartea pe d … more →

Tags: Ro, Roland Barthes, Lewis Payne, Alexander Gardner

George wrote 11 months ago: Câteva cuvinte pe care mi le-am notat din Barthes – Camera Lucida – recitind cartea pe d … more →

Tags: Ro, Roland Barthes, Lewis Payne, Alexander Gardner

George wrote 1 year ago: Despre fotografia de mai jos [făcută de Kertész în 1921 undeva în Ungaria], Barthes spune [în Camera … more →

Tags: Ro, Andre Kertesz, Roland Barthes, Camera luminoasă

cwongyap wrote 1 year ago: I enjoy taking photos, but I only find satisfaction from printed photographs on occasion. I find the … more →

Tags: Research, Roland Barthes, James Elkins, Six Stories from the End of Represenation, Art Theory, photographic theory

The Pose

knut skjaerven wrote 1 year ago: Copyright 2008. Knut Skjærven. All rights reserved. Roland Barthes: “I might put this differen … more →

Tags: Phenomenology, notebook, barebones pitstop, Photography, connotation, Pitstop, Roland Barthes, barebones notebook, connotations

Carolines

Fadil Elmansour wrote 1 year ago:   there is nothing more arbitrary than the choice of this photo to begin my little photo blog … more →

Tags: Chicago, Photography, Visual Theory, media, Arts, image, gesture, Language Theory, Caroline


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